Word: hastert
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That requires compromise. Both sides will have to budge on liability caps, and Democrats will have to accept language more clearly exempting employers from suits. Republican moderate Olympia Snowe is leading the way on that issue, and Daschle supports her. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is floating a proposal to allow a limited number of patient suits in state courts...
...After Vice President Dick Cheney announced Bush's energy plan last May, "he went underground," complains another top GOP aide, leaving Democrats an open field to paint it as pro-business and anti-environmental. Top House GOP leaders like Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Whip Tom DeLay felt marooned, along with West Coast Republican congressmen taking the brunt of public anger over energy shortages and rising gas pump prices...
...Realizing last week that Senate Democrats were poised to shove an unpalatable measure at him, Bush began scrambling for a life raft from the House. Hastert had already signed on to Fletcher's bill. Bush swallowed his opposition to state court suits and publicly endorsed the measure. Bush also tried to pump oxygen into its flagging energy plan, calling for more research into developing energy-efficient products and insisting that he wants the federal government to do more to conserve power. "I think that they're getting reenergized, and that's good," said a senior House Republican aide...
...Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Though Bush added a typically combative wrinkle to that debate Thursday by tying $1.2 billion in funding for alternative and renewable energy sources to royalties from ANWR drilling, congressional handicappers still say Alaska drilling is a non-starter. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert telegraphed as much Wednesday when he said the Bush would have to make a "much better case" than they have been...
...doubt improving those chances for victory on the Senate floor was the steep and treacherous climb McCain-Feingold still faces on the Hill. What has McCain won? A long and bitter rematch in the House, where Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt are both starting to stammer and Tom DeLay is loaded for bear. Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's House doppleganger, always cruised when it had nowhere to go - now the knives will be drawn. And if the twin bills don't match up exactly when they're through - down to the last amendment? McCain gets a reconciliation fight, with...