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Bush's 24-page reform plan aims to "enhance operational efficiencies" and encourage "better asset utilization." To win support for his plan, Bush has to convince Congress that the bureaucracy we have now is part of the problem--while allaying fears that the vast new one he's proposing won't make things even worse...
When the President does decide to take a swing, he swings hard. By delivering his reform package with a presidential seal and a prime-time flourish, Bush hopes to propel it through Congress quickly. Last Tuesday morning he met with his aides in the Oval Office to discuss his speech to the nation. Card told him that "here in Washington, this is going to be a huge story." Bush relished the thought of rattling the cages of Washington's institutional bureaucracies; he told the aides that as long as he was announcing something, he wanted it to be dramatic. Said...
That work seems certain to overshadow everything else on Congress's agenda this year--which is just fine with Republicans, who had feared spending an election-year summer talking about a prescription-drug benefit and defending themselves on Social Security reform. "Bush finally has a domestic agenda," says a relieved White House adviser. But that doesn't mean there won't be arguments. The leaders of the House and Senate will be busy quelling the turf fights that have already begun. The biggest losers will be the Treasury Department, which would give up the Secret Service and Customs...
...claims is the American Catholic Church's only road to salvation. Like many Catholics, they are suffering a crisis of confidence as a result of the sex-abuse scandal of the past months, but unlike some others, they see in it opportunity. "If there was ever a time for reform," argues Gisela Morales-Barreto, who attended her first meeting in April, "this is it." At their regular meetings, the rebels pray for the victims of abuse. But they also pray for their bishops: "that their hearts and minds be opened to inclusion and collaboration with the faithful...
...majority of a company's directors have no ties to the company and that shareholders approve all stock-option plans. Henry Paulson, the normally low-profile chairman and CEO of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (Tyco's financial adviser), was one of many business leaders ringing the bell for reform. "American business has never been under such scrutiny. To be blunt, much of it is deserved," Paulson said in a speech calling for curbs on when a CEO can profit by selling company stock, among other things...