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Bush has also issued avowals that he will veto appropriations bills when the Senate has threatened to repeal existing restrictions on abortions. As recently as last Friday, he warned Congress that if a catchall spending bill under consideration omits even one existing curtailment of federal funds for abortion, his advisers would recommend a veto. "It's a mistake to underrate his focus," says Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, an abortion-rights advocate who has found herself on the losing side of the abortion wars. "They are persistent, and they are insistent...
...professor Kitaoka: "Remilitarization is indeed going on, but no one is willing to take on the task of changing the legal framework." In fact, many legal experts claim that a number of the recent military laws are unconstitutional, yet no serious challenge to declare them as such or repeal them has reached a higher court...
...details of the Bush plan are shocking: the administration would repeal the tax on stock dividends as the centerpiece of $674 billion in cuts. Overall, the plan could increase the deficit, already expected next year, to $300 billion. This comes at a time when states are facing massive budget shortfalls due to lower revenues and rising costs of security and health care. At the same time, the administration is gearing up for a war with Iraq. The cost of a war is undetermined as yet, but the conflict would certainly cost tens of billions of dollars and could consume...
Nevertheless, considering the bad financial situation of federal and state governments, we oppose any tax cuts this year. Bush’s 2001 tax cut was a large part of the reason for the current deficits; it would make more sense to repeal that law, which will further reduce income taxes and eliminate the estate tax, instead of speeding up its effects...
...words, "hard to put in a box." Republicans would have had difficulty pigeonholing a black, 32-year-old, three-term Congressman who voted against Bush's tax cuts but in favor of such conservative perennials as the prayer-in-school and anti-flag burning constitutional amendments and repeal of the death tax. He thinks it's time for Democrats to stop "telling people what they already know" about the shortcomings of Bush's policies and propose some ideas of their own. "Democrats have to come up with some answers. Voters are tired of hearing us just...