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Officials from the banking-industry-friendly Center for Freedom and Prosperity sat down with top Bush economic advisers Larry Lindsey and R. Glenn Hubbard and urged them to keep the U.S. out of the coalition and firmly support the status quo in many tax havens. The group's pitch: Americans should be free to seek out lower tax rates anywhere in the world; competition from tax havens helps keep tax rates in the U.S. down. The conservative Heritage Foundation met with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and presented a similar argument. And the C.F.P. helped Don Nickles of Oklahoma...
...Washington these days may well be the private and informal one that has convened twice lately around the conference table in House Speaker Dennis Hastert's suite in the Capitol. The faces at the table include four other congressional leaders of both parties, White House economic adviser Larry Lindsey, Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. When they first met, eight days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Greenspan cautioned the group not to rush to revive the economy until they had time to measure the full effect of the tragedy. But last Wednesday...
...catastrophes turned their industry into a flying bomb threat, airline executives looking for help from Washington have been in the political equivalent of a three-hour check-in line. Now, after a meeting at the White House with Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta and chief Bush economic adviser Larry Lindsey, it seems that a bailout...
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta and Bush economic adviser Larry Lindsey will meet with airline executives today. The meeting comes after President Bush ordered aides to develop a package of proposals to help the airline industry yesterday...
...shout, "Coach! Coach!" when he walks into their caucus meetings. Hastert's keen sense of the commonplace favors and bills his members need to survive the next election is in contrast to with Gingrich's millenarian frothings. "Newt had a vision for the year 2020," says South Carolina Representative Lindsey Graham. "Denny is thinking about next Tuesday." A conservative, Hastert has also done what DeLay and Armey could not: convinced pivotal G.O.P. moderates that he cares about them too. And he should. In a closely divided House, their votes carry more weight. "I don't know of anyone else...