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...anti-tax organization called the Tax Relief Coalition has recruited 20 business organizations for a "working group" on the issue. Its first meeting is set for this week. If that is not enough to entice businesses to get on board, maybe another kind of pressure will. Activist Grover Norquist, who works closely with the White House, warns the business world to think long term. "You want to be in on next year's package?" Norquist asks. "Then salute this year's." --By Karen Tumulty
...They won't try that again. Bush hammered the Senate as soft on terrorism for opposing the plan, and Democrats like Cleland were vulnerable to the charge. "The President will get what he wants on homeland security because of the political corpse of Max Cleland," says conservative lobbyist Grover Norquist...
...time, more than 150 organizations from left and right have organized an umbrella group, In Defense of Freedom, that may be the first umbrella that Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum has ever shared with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. As head of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist is ordinarily one of Washington's most high-profile conservative activists. But he hasn't forgotten that during the 1995 battle, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick suggested that the new powers could be used against militant tax evaders. "Prosecutors always want more power," says Norquist. "We need to slow this...
...winning the primaries. If conservatives came to think Bush was an ardent tax cutter, they would be willing to let him roam much closer to the center on just about everything else to win the heart of independents. "He moved the party on immigration and education," says Grover Norquist, godfather of all tax cutters, "but no Republican could have abandoned tax cuts and won the primary, or the general...