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...education bill. But then the White House seemed to go on vacation. "On the other stuff moving through the Congress" such as the patients bill of rights, energy measures, and key appropriations bills, "there has not been the day-to-day event planning and messaging," complains a senior House GOP aide. "They haven't been as good as in the past...
...After Vice President Dick Cheney announced Bush's energy plan last May, "he went underground," complains another top GOP aide, leaving Democrats an open field to paint it as pro-business and anti-environmental. Top House GOP leaders like Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Whip Tom DeLay felt marooned, along with West Coast Republican congressmen taking the brunt of public anger over energy shortages and rising gas pump prices...
...twister/Senate tiebreaker/rock on which his White House is built/most invaluable vice president in history. Cheney works longer hours than his boss, he sits in when Bush meets world leaders, and his appearance last week at an Orlando fund-raiser June 23 brought in $2.5 million for the GOP. And there's only...
...House bill is starting to look like the GOP's last best hope for an outcome resembling victory: This week, the Senate defeated (by a vote of 56-43) a Republican-sponsored amendment to eliminate employer liability in health care lawsuits. "They concluded that the benefits of letting people sue the employer were much smaller than the potential cost," sponsor Phil Gramm said after the vote. The Senate also defeated (61-39) a move by Iowa's Charles Grassley to send the Democrats' bill back to committee (a classic stall tactic...
...open to catastrophic legal costs and raise the price of insurance premiums, forcing employers to drop coverage. In the end, the White House argues, the unlimited-damages approach could leave millions of Americans without insurance. (Democrats contend their plan would cost just 37 cents a month more than the GOP plan...