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...growing chorus of foreign-policy mandarins from both parties is pushing Bush to make the Iranians a more dramatic offer: face-to-face negotiations. "I don't understand why we are not exercising all of our diplomatic options with Iran, and that begins with talking," says Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican. "Diplomacy is about talking...
...despite the President's occasional public statements, has been virtually non-existent - could move Republicans forward. Or a backlash against the massive protests planned by pro-immigration groups in coming days could make them dig in their heels. The Senate's dealmakers -John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Hagel, Mel Martinez, Barack Obama and others - say they will continue their weekly meetings in search of a compromise. For now though, as Kennedy put it in what amounted to a major understatement, ?politics got in front of policy...
...Republican House panel concluded last week that Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff made decisions during Hurricane Katrina "late, ineffectively or not at all." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was grilled about Iraq by cranky Republican Senators: "I don't see, Madame Secretary, how things are getting better," said Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. "I think things are getting worse. I think they're getting worse in Iraq. I think they're getting worse in Iran." Over at the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican chairman Pat Roberts suggested that the National Security Agency's no- warrant surveillance program could come under the authority...
...failed to convince key Senators, such as Republicans Larry Craig of Idaho, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, all of whom object to the limited checks on executive authority in the bill. Instead, the opponents won over other GOP colleagues, including presidential hopeful Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. The rhetoric got so hot Thursday that Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, a White House ally on the issue, said on the floor of the Senate that a terrorist attack that occurred after the expiration could be on the heads of those who voted to support...
...address, Bush called critics of the war “deeply irresponsible,” adding that they send the wrong message to the enemy and to U.S. troops. But critics are now firing back. In reference to Bush’s rhetorical offensive, Senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said last Tuesday, “Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor [is it] what this country has stood for over 200 years.” Though Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, has criticized the war for a long time...