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Late last year, even before Enron began to dominate the headlines, House Speaker Dennis Hastert persuaded Bush to shelve until after the election his plan to privatize part of the Social Security program. Bush has not given up on the idea of letting people decide for themselves how to invest part of their Social Security taxes; he mentioned it again in his State of the Union speech. But the White House can't count on Republican congressional candidates to make that case on the stump this year. That's because when voters start thinking about retirement, it often means early...
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and other members of the House leadership prefer a competing measure which would allow individual donors to give $75,000 to each of the major parties’ three national committees in addition to unlimited money for state political parties. But this plan would do next-to-nothing; it is only a feel-good measure designed to look like reform. It would keep an incredible amount of unregulated money in politics, by pushing the problem that currently plagues national political parties to the state level and thereby ignoring the source of the problem?...
POLITICS AGAIN President Bush told reporters he will be campaigning in 2002: "One of my goals will be to see that Denny Hastert remains the Speaker and...that Trent Lott becomes the [Senate] majority leader...
Bush made careful, bipartisan moves in the immediate wake of Sept. 11. He brought a parade of lawmakers to the White House and then organized a weekly breakfast with the Democratic and Republican leadership. Everything seemed greased at first. House Speaker Dennis Hastert pulled Bush aside the day after the attacks and told him that he should come to Congress and ask for the authority and money to wage war. Bush's instinct might have been to circumvent Congress, but Hastert made the invitation too sweet to decline. "Lay out your vision," he said. "We're going to give...
That's probably the tone of things to come. The further Bush gets from Sept. 11, the more the numbers 2002 and 2004 will matter. Already, under pressure from Speaker Hastert, the President has quietly agreed to postpone any real push to reform Social Security until after next fall's election. Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, denies that Bush has changed anything on Social Security, but Hastert has told allies that he has the President's word. Bush told friends during the campaign last year that he had, at most, 18 months to get something done. Some Republicans...