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...represented Vermont in the U.S. Congress since 1974, when he was elected as the Green Mountain State's lone U.S. Representative. In 1988, his constituents voted him to the U.S. Senate, where he now holds the chairmanship of the Education and Labor committees. If he does leave the GOP to be either a Democrat or an independent, he will reportedly become chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Jeffords would also maintain his seat on the powerful Senate Finance Committee...
...Political observers do not expect leaving the GOP to hurt Jeffords? reputation in Vermont. His constituents, who rank among the nation?s most progressive voters - their other Senator, Patrick Leahy is a liberal Democrat while their Congressman, Bernie Sanders, is an Independent Socialist - are reportedly reacting positively to news of Jeffords? defection...
...sure is. Take John McCain. Rumors have been swirling that the maverick Republican who battled Bush in last year's presidential primaries might bolt the GOP to run as a Democrat, or perhaps as a third party candidate, against the President in 2004. No way, says McCain. But the two men certainly are acting like campaign opponents. The Arizona Senator votes with Democrats on a number of issues and practically every Democratic senator running for President has gotten him to co-sponsor a pet bill. Bush, for his part, keeps trying to preempt McCain - for example, endorsing a rival patient...
...Meanwhile, the GOP is scrambling to fill in the gaps between Bush's long-term vision and the vulnerability they're feeling as summer driving season approaches. Bush's Energy Department is doing its part, insisting in its latest oil/gas forecast that "supplies are expected to improve and the chances that spot and retail prices will calm down are good." But Frank Murkowski, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent out a memo Wednesday listing six ideas which "will solve our energy problems in the short term...
...reason to believe there's price gouging" - and there won't be any federal imposition of price caps in California or anywhere else. But other possibilities, like a temporary repeal of that 18.4 percent gas tax or even a temporary suspension of some highway tolls, got batted around at GOP lawmakers' weekly lunch with Cheney on Tuesday, and with vulnerable GOPers like Susan Collins of Maine fielding a lot of angry calls from the folks at home, we may see Bush and Cheney play a little short-term politics...