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Almost from the moment that DeLay first came up with the idea of subpoenaing Schiavo as a way to prevent the removal of her feeding tube, the saga has had elements of a political circus. There was Congress, convening a special session during the Easter recess to pass a bill crafted just for one family, giving Schiavo's parents a final avenue of appeal. There was President Bush, for the first time cutting short a rest at his ranch to sign a bill. Top Republican staffers on Capitol Hill told TIME that it took some lobbying by congressional Republican leaders...
...that part of the problem in selling private accounts has been that many of their members don't exactly understand the details of Social Security. "We have to educate our own members and we haven't completely done that," says House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. With a two-week recess sending them back to their districts starting on March 21, House leaders are trying to make sure members fare better than they did a few weeks ago when many endured tough questioning in Social Security town hall meetings. Rather than holding town halls, many Republican members will hold "workshops," where...
...events which one senior Republican House aide said in some cases were "horrific." Because the President will not pick a route, members have to defend all possible choices. "They can't go home and defend 17 different opinions," says a senior Congressional Republican staffer worried about the next Congressional recess in two weeks. Based on the President's strategy, they're going to have...
...plan. She says Congress should spend the year looking at the program and then try to write legislation, an unlikely scenario since 2006 is an election year. But the Senator, who didn't hold any town halls because she was traveling to Iraq and Afghanistan over the recess as part of her service on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said she has already met two fans of the President's ideas. While visiting troops in both countries, two soldiers, who she expected to be asking about body armor or when they were coming home, started lobbying her about the value...
...Soros--funded Campaign for America's Future has launched newspaper ads accusing Louisiana Republican Jim McCrery of supporting Bush's plan because investment companies donated to his campaigns. A top Republican adviser says members are telling him they will need better ammunition before facing constituents again during the Easter recess. If the momentum can't be turned around by then, an already difficult fight will start to look hopeless. --By Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Matthew Cooper and Karen Tumulty