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In the Senate, Republican Leader Trent Lott has been privately fuming over White House stumbles in organizing its response to the patients bill of rights. Bush had wanted to delay considering a patient's bill to pursue other priorities like his energy plan. He could stall when Republicans controlled the...
On Capitol Hill, Republicans are eyeing next year's elections and getting nervous. Moderates are especially worried that on the environment, tax cuts, gasoline and electricity prices and now health care, Bush comes across as the servant of Big Business. The tipping point, some say, was his energy plan, which...
We've moved into Week Two in the long and contentious battle over a patients' bill of rights, with no end in sight. Wednesday and Thursday President Bush met with Senate moderates, urging them to compromise - especially if it's a compromise that favors a GOP version of the bill...
Stalling worked for a while. White House aides got Republican Congressman Charles Norwood to hold off sponsoring a similar measure in the House with the promise that they'd negotiate a compromise with him. But "he was being strung along," says GOP Congressman Greg Ganske, a cosponsor of Norwood's...
But Bush's end run petered out when Jeffords' defection from the GOP gave Democrats control of the Senate. Daschle ordered that the patients' bill would be the next measure considered after education, not energy legislation that Republicans had wanted. Fed up with the White House, Norwood trashed the administration...