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...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 bill. While they kept Norwood closeted in endless meetings, Bush aides secretly helped write a bill more to their liking with GOP Sen. Bill Frist and moderates John Breaux and Jim Jeffords. That measure channels all suits into federal courts and limits jury awards for pain and suffering to just...
...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 as inflexible and deceptive in a memo to colleagues last week and made a public show of introducing his legislation in the House. Now the White House has to take those defections seriously, which affects their negotiating posture. Apply too much muscle and you might lose moderates like Senator Lincoln Chaffee...
...Republican Rep. Charlie Norwood moved closer to casting his support behind the Kennedy bill after he reportedly became frustrated in negotiations with the White House. Is this a signal to Bush...
...There are a couple of ways to see Norwood?s threat of defection. Norwood believes the White House hasn?t negotiated with him in good faith. So he can put public pressure on Bush by adding his support to the House version of Kennedy-McCain. It?s a politically savvy move; Norwood?s been on this case for a while - he knows who the key players...
...could also argue that Norwood?s defection is a result of the White House?s old approach, which involved strong-arming or intimidating lawmakers to get their way. But the White House has to be careful now - they face not only the reality of building consensus, but also the problematic (post-Jeffords) perception that they?ve been abandoned by members of their own team...