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...Stalling worked for a while. White House aides got Republican Congressman Charles Norwood to hold off sponsoring a similar measure in the House with the promise that they'd negotiate a compromise with him. But "he was being strung along," says GOP Congressman Greg Ganske, a cosponsor of Norwood's bill. While they kept Norwood closeted in endless meetings, Bush aides secretly helped write a bill more to their liking with GOP Sen. Bill Frist and moderates John Breaux and Jim Jeffords. That measure channels all suits into federal courts and limits jury awards for pain and suffering to just...
...Bush's end run petered out when Jeffords' defection from the GOP gave Democrats control of the Senate. Daschle ordered that the patients' bill would be the next measure considered after education, not energy legislation that Republicans had wanted. Fed up with the White House, Norwood trashed the administration as inflexible and deceptive in a memo to colleagues last week and made a public show of introducing his legislation in the House. Now the White House has to take those defections seriously, which affects their negotiating posture. Apply too much muscle and you might lose moderates like Senator Lincoln Chaffee...
...Josh Bolton to meet with McCain and invited all the Senate sponsors to a White House meeting last week. But it was mostly for appearances. The Bolton- McCain huddle lasted only about 15 minutes and the White House meeting "was a dog-and-pony show," admits a top Senate GOP staffer...
...president also has to tend to conservative members in his own party. Republican senators are drafting dozens of amendments to pick apart the Democrats' measure. "It's going to be hit by armor-piercing incendiaries," vows GOP conservative Phil Gramm. White House aides laugh at Gramm's colorful opposition, but conservatives are angry about a series of administration apostasies on education, taxes and defense. There is no great rush to give Dashcle his first victory. But the White House knows that passage may mean fighting through a filibuster threat from members of its own party...
...happens to be wildly popular, with as many as 79% of Republican voters telling pollsters they support a patient's bill of rights. The HMO lobby disputes that figure but most Republicans see a bigger reality. "You can never win an argument that people can't sue," says a GOP aide. "It's un-American. We need to get a deal and move on." After a week in foreign lands, that's a language Bush can understand...