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...mind focused I mean it.? It was a timely pep talk, coming after hollow-eyed Republicans had returned from town halls and covered dish dinners where angry constituents were opposed to Bush's initiative. The man in charge of shepherding the President's plan through the Senate, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, hinted last week it might make sense to scrap Bush's key proposal, for personal accounts. GOP allies once tasked with building up support for those accounts were declaring the Gambit dead or floating pared-down compromise options...
...this year. He seemed to be recognizing how hard it would be to untangle the many unanswered questions, but delay would also mean pushing action into the volatile 2006 election year. After a talking to by the White House, Frist reiterated he wanted the legislation passed this year. Senator Grassley seemed to be feeling the same kinds of pressures when he flirted with dropping the President's plan for private accounts. As the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee he knows that the only way any piece of legislation will pass is with a filibuster proof 60 votes. That means...
...Middle School in Phoenix, Ariz., G.O.P. lawmaker John Shadegg faced a crowd of 280 people, 30% of whom by his estimate were there to voice angry opposition to tinkering with Social Security. "They rushed to the microphones," says Shadegg. After 17 town halls across Iowa last week, Charles Grassley, head of the Senate Finance Committee, said of the President's plan, "There's still a lot of people that are not focused on it or don't think there's a problem or don't even want to talk about it." A G.O.P. congressional aide estimated that in her office...
...Grassley gives Bush 90 days to generate support, and moderate G.O.P. Representative Chris Shays of Connecticut says, "I would be surprised to see a bill passed by the House, Senate, and signed by the President in the next two years." Still, the White House is far from conceding defeat on its top legislative priority. "This is the beginning of the process, not the end," says a senior White House official. Bush will continue to travel a couple of days each week to the districts of G.O.P. lawmakers and "persuadable" Democrats. But tactics are getting rougher. Shadegg believes that liberal groups...
...seen some evidence over the last year that the agency has been too cozy with drugmakers," Grassley says. An independent safety board, he argues, would ensure that the experts who are responsible for finding and publicizing unexpected side effects are not the same ones who originally gave the drug a clean bill of health...