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...also serves as a library trustee. (The precise size of the donation remains unknown because the Bush library, while listing its patrons, has declined to release the amounts they gave.) The Cox family's generosity began years earlier with at least $35,000 in contributions to Bush and GOP campaigns. (The total may have been higher because soft money did not have to be reported at that time.) And the family kept on giving after Bush left office, with $125,000 going to GOP campaign committees in 1995 and about $30,000 to gubernatorial and presidential races of today...
...Senate Democrats, whose entire rival tax cut proposal costs less than Bush's marginal rate cuts, would rather there be no across-the-board cuts at all. With a GOP majority in the House and Bush in the Oval Office, they'll have to start negotiating eventually. But when Baucus and the other 10 Democrats on the 20-member Senate Finance Committee sit around the table for hearings Wednesday, it'll be angry soundbite time...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell may well find himself in a firefight on Capitol Hill Wednesday when he gives conservative Republicans their first opportunity to challenge his recent statements on Iraq. General Powell is slated to appear before the House Foreign Relations Committee to discuss his budget, offering some GOP hard-liners an opportunity to air their concerns about his proposal to relax most sanctions on Iraq while tightening the arms embargo. Powell touted the policy during his tour of Middle Eastern capitals two weeks ago, prompting some alarm among conservatives over the appearance of going soft on Saddam. Even...
...Quick House passage makes the GOP look productive and the Democrats look like foot-draggers, and gets the American people used to the idea that something in the way of a tax rebate is headed their...
...Representative Dan Burton, GOP chair of the Government Reform Committee and longtime Clinton foe, fires off a letter to Roger Clinton, asking the infamous former first brother to clarify his involvement at any stage of the pardon process...