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...part of Bush administration critics in the Senate about using their muscle to rein in the White House on foreign policy issues. Missile defense may be the most immediate flash-point, but the administration also faces criticism over global warming. Last week, Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman issued a joint statement criticizing the Bush administration's isolation from international negotiations over measures to curb global warming, and urged the U.S. to set mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. A rejection of the very principle of mandatory caps had prompted President Bush to nix the Kyoto treaty, and the Lieberman...
...little more honest and open before the M.P.A.A. ratings board got their hands on it," admits John Stockwell, who was midway through directing the movie last year when Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman launched their congressional assault on the entertainment industry for marketing adult product to children. Filmmakers around Hollywood who had been courting teen ticket buyers soon felt a chill. "The whole mood at Disney changed," says Stockwell, who was ordered by the studio to tame Crazy/Beautiful's R-rated script and deliver a PG-13 movie. In the final version of Crazy/Beautiful, opening this week, the heroine...
...Trent Lott has warned Bush aides that California's problems could infect 10 Western states, endangering Colorado's Wayne Allard, Idaho's Larry Craig and Oregon's Gordon Smith. And while Bush may be writing off California's votes, plenty of Democrats covet them, including putative presidential contender Joe Lieberman, whose first act as a new committee chairman last week was to launch hearings into the state's energy crisis...
...they spell relief won't matter if FERC's action doesn't work. "It's better than nothing but not nearly as attractive as it sounds," says Davis, who will tell Lieberman's committee the same thing this week. "The way around it is quite obvious. Generators simply sell the product to a middle person--which they do anyway--and that marketer has no obligations under the order." Also, the order will not get back the $7 billion California estimates it has been overcharged by electricity suppliers since last...
...nationally is in trouble. In mid-April, internal House polls showed the Republicans 3 points behind the Democrats on the question of which party could be trusted more on energy issues. Two weeks ago, they'd fallen to 15 points behind. Republicans fear that will only get worse as Lieberman and two other committee chairmen convene hearings on Bush's energy policies--and his friends in the industry. Both state and federal authorities are probing allegations of market manipulation by a variety of power generators and pipeline operators...