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...TIME/CNN poll, 77% said they think a war would make acts of terrorism in the U.S. more likely, and 63% said the prospect of war made them more fearful for the country. "No one wants to go to war," said Russ Alters, 60, in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, last week, expressing a sentiment that would have been just as common on the streets of Dusseldorf or Damascus. The Administration has always worried that public support for a war--especially one waged without backing from a broad international coalition--was soft. To gain maximum support, the Administration still needs to sell...
...concerned about the deficits that could result from the Bush budget proposal. More than a third--36%--think the Bush plan would make the economy worse. Bush is also facing a rough road in Congress, even among Republican friends. Key G.O.P. Senators like Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley of Iowa and Olympia Snowe of Maine have suggested that the crown jewel of Bush's tax-cut proposal--the $300 billion elimination of dividend taxes--is either too large or too slow acting to goose the economy. "It's one of the weaker links in the President's proposal, in regard...
...seniors into managed care as the price of obtaining drug coverage looks like political suicide to lawmakers of both parties, who for years have been promising seniors a comprehensive solution to the rising costs of prescriptions. It could be a deal-breaker, warns Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican whose panel will shepherd the legislation through the Senate. The White House dismisses fears it won't be fully engaged; in the meantime, even G.O.P. health-care experts who advise Bush are skeptical that his proposal will get anywhere. Said one: "It's never going to happen." --By John...
...weeks ago, on his first trip to Iowa since announcing for President, Kerry drew 600 to a theater in Des Moines--the size of a crowd you would expect when that state's first-in-the-nation presidential contest is weeks away rather than a year. He has the most fully developed political network in the early-primary states (including a leg up on everyone else in neighboring New Hampshire). His marriage to Heinz, widow of Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, gives him the option of tapping substantial financial assets. And he has assembled the strongest and toughest team of campaign...
...faced workplace retaliation as a result of speaking out against wrongdoing at their companies were at the mercy of a patchwork of state and federal laws. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was supposed to change all that, say Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa. They added a provision shielding people who provide information to any member of the House or Senate. But when Bush signed the bill last summer, he issued a statement suggesting an important qualifier: the government would protect whistle-blowers only after Congress has authorized an investigation...