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...many, in the view of the latest and leaner-minded Defense Department boss. Next month Rumsfeld will list the bases he wants closed or moved, and a nine-member Base Realignment and Closure Commission has until Sept. 8 to approve or amend his recommendations. Then Bush must accept or reject the final list--on an all-or-none basis--and submit it to Congress, whose only option is to pass a joint resolution by Nov. 7 to turn down the list in its entirety. Otherwise it becomes binding...
...hours of the morning--although he could have approved it from his ranch in Texas--President George W. Bush did not escape the public's displeasure. In TIME's poll, 70% disapproved of his role in the drama. As federal and Florida state courts continued to reject appeals from Schiavo's parents to reinsert her feeding tube, Washington may have started to get the message. Bush, DeLay and Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee were suddenly as quiet as the Democrats had been all along; the Republican congressional leaders declined opportunities to speak about Schiavo on the Sunday-morning talk shows...
...time when G.O.P. leaders in Congress have been unable to gain much traction on issues like abortion and gay rights--which are near and dear to Christian conservatives--this was a no-lose opportunity to burnish their credentials with their most demanding and important supporters. Still, many Republicans reject the notion that anything but deep moral conviction motivated the extraordinary legislative measure. "It's hard to say it's politics when you get that kind of consensus in a divided U.S. Senate," says Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa...
...Barney Frank, D-Mass., put it succinctly when he argued that supporters of the Schiavo bill “reject the fundamental precept of American government—namely that it’s a limited government.” Whether one loves or loathes Frank, it is clear that when the famously liberal congressman complains about too much government he likely has a point...
...space, said the Administration was leaning toward an expensive site in the Tyson's Corner, Va., area of the Washington suburbs. He wants to know why the new intelligence czar can't settle for more reasonably priced real estate and possibly existing government buildings. A source says Negroponte may reject the Virginia location anyway, in favor of a spot closer to the White House. He obviously knows the other thing that really counts in Washington: location, location, location. --By Timothy J. Burger