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...already front and center for many Congressmen, obsessed as they have been all year with China's surging trade surplus and a currency that was not revalued until July 21, and the Foreign Ministry did CNOOC no favors in Washington by weighing in. "For [them] to declare that Congress ought to get out of the issue [was] just totally naive, and absolutely inflamed the Congress," says C. Richard D'Amato, chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The White House, meanwhile, stayed pretty much silent about the issue throughout...
...evolution. After joking that the reporter was "doing a fine job of dragging me back to the past," to his days as governor of Texas, Bush said: "Then, I said that, first of all, that decision should be made to local school districts, but I felt like both sides ought to be properly taught...
...Both sides ought to be properly taught?? asked Hutcheson...
...Hutcheson followed up: "So the answer accepts the validity of ?intelligent design' as an alternative to evolution?" Bush replied, "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought, and I'm not suggesting - you're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer...
...Either way, they've found a powerful champion in the President of the United States who has gone beyond advocating local control to say that school children "ought to be exposed" to a theory that critics describe as being tantamount to religion...