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...Tennessee, Republican Bill Frist was testing out another line. The Senator sat down early last Thursday morning with about two-dozen cotton farmers at a University of Tennessee agricultural research center in Jackson, which is 85 miles northeast of Memphis. Tennessee grows 660,000 acres of cotton, but farmers are in trouble, they told Frist, who was taking notes. American cotton consumption is down, the farmers complained, cotton prices are dropping, a stronger dollar means U.S. cotton can?t compete overseas and cotton mills are closing...
...forty minutes, the farmers recited bushels-full of statistics on crop yields and prices. They were hoping that the farm spending bill Congress was now considering would offer some relief. Finally a cotton farmer raised his hand to get to the bottom line. "My question is," he asked Frist, "if the surplus has gone away, are there going to be budget constraints so that it's difficult to pass this farm bill? Is the money there to pass this farm bill?" Even with the shrinking numbers, Frist reminded the farmers, the total surplus is still "huge...
...With an eye on controlling both houses, Frist, who heads up the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the group in charge of returning the Senate to the GOP in 2002, closely monitors how folks in his state (and in other states with Republican senators) are reacting to the shrinking surplus. He knows it will be a favorite topic in attacks from across the aisle, but stands firm in his message. "The Democrats clearly are going to use it," he told me. "Our commitment is to balance the budget and to fuel the economy. The way you can do that is with...
...Attorney General Janet Reno is weighing a challenge to Jeb Bush for Florida Governor, and former Clinton adviser Rahm Emmanuel is eyeing a congressional seat in Illinois. Aiming for a little balance, Elizabeth Dole has talked to Bush adviser Karl Rove and Senate Campaign Committee boss Bill Frist about running for Jesse Helms' Senate seat, should he retire...
...reaction was first one of relief," says Santorum. "We had heard rumors that the President was going to fund stem-cell research, and many of us thought this was going to be the Frist proposal." Santorum says Bush's decision might "actually stop further destruction of human life because the scientists who now are looking for robust funding programs are going to be working with these existing stem-cell lines. So the desire to create more stem-cell lines through destruction of human embryos will be alleviated...