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...Senate comes up with its own version down the road, are already on the attack. None of the GOP's bills "would prevent big corporations from taking advantage of their employees as Enron did,'' said Dick Gephardt and Martin Frost (D-Texas) in a letter to Speaker Dennis Hastert. "We fear that characterizing the committee-passed bills as a response to the Enron collapse would seriously mislead millions of Americans about the security of their 401(k) plans...
...idea was to make the lawmakers feel important by treating them to scrambled eggs, coffee and the President's personality. But the Breakfast Club has not met since Feb. 27. That morning Bush led the group--Democrats Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt and Republicans Trent Lott and Dennis Hastert--on an hour-long tour of the world, briefing them on Afghanistan, Pakistan and his recent trip to Korea, Japan and China. But the next morning Daschle and Gephardt learned what he had left out. They woke up to a headline that said Bush was considering sending military advisers to fight...
Bush was famous in Texas for picking and choosing his fights, and backing off when he knew a cause was lost. He is following the same strategy in Washington, but congressional Republicans grumble that he is often too choosy. House Speaker Hastert was quietly enraged last month when Bush all but abandoned G.O.P. Congressmen battling campaign-finance reform. (During the 2000 campaign, Bush frequently suggested the reform bill was unconstitutional but has since signaled that he will sign it. "How can he sign a bill he believes is illegal?" asks one Republican.) Bush barely tried to rescue Pickering's nomination...
...White House by early next month. Chastened by the Enron scandal, George W. Bush is expected to sign it. He opposed the measure during his primary battle with McCain, but he would rather ride a train than be run over by it. Last week he enraged House Speaker Dennis Hastert by barely lifting a finger to fight the bill...
...Democrats have the momentum in the budget war? Not quite. Gephardt and House Democrats have the luxury of being able to gripe from the sidelines. They're in the minority; House Speaker Dennis Hastert and his GOP colleagues run that chamber and have to get a budget resolution through it. But the Democrats control the Senate. After the howling over Bush's budget quiets, Daschle has to produce a budget that the Senate will pass if Democrats want to be seen as a credible alternative to Bush and his spending plans...