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...committees, the department was then confronted with a copy of the bill leaked to the Center for Public Integrity. Responding with evasive sophistry, the Justice Department claimed that the changes were only being discussed at a staff level, despite the fact that Vice President Cheney and House Speaker Dennis Hastert had reportedly seen a draft of the bill far in advance...
Even House Speaker Dennis Hastert became miffed when he felt he was being used. Hastert visited Bush early in the week for a long-planned conference on issues affecting his state of Illinois. But afterward, Bush aides declined to douse press speculation that the two were meeting without Lott to plan Congress's legislative agenda. "They got too cute by half down there," a senior Senate G.O.P. aide says of the White House...
Once the food had been cleared, a few guests--including House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Representative Tom Davis, the G.O.P.'s congressional campaign chair--ducked out to get back to their war rooms. But when Lott tried to leave, Bush pulled him into a sitting room outfitted with more TV monitors and jangling phones. As the results of close Senate races came in, Bush placed congratulatory calls to Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina and John Sununu in New Hampshire, handed the phone to Lott, then dialed another number. "He clearly was having fun," Lott says. After the fifth call, Lott...
...stirring moral lecture, but critics lined up to pillory the limited enforcement measures Bush proposed to rectify the situation. Even his own party wants more; by Thursday the Senate was debating tougher proposals to protect investors, and Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert endorsed those, rather than Bush's more limited remedies. Investors appeared unimpressed with either; the Dow lost nearly 700 points for the week, and closed Friday below...
...train system that worked. Unfortunately, the entire company is in shambles. Monday, the Amtrak board of directors begged Transportation Secretary Norman Minetta for another $200 million in "rescue" funds. The White House seemed uninterested in bailing out the ailing rail system and many GOP leaders, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, said they'd like to eliminate Amtrak's rail monopoly...