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...with more pork than Frist or Bush wants. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, who has long lusted after the majority leader's job and heads the Budget Committee, can be expected to push for bigger tax cuts than the White House believes are palatable. Another Lott ally, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who is third in rank and chairs the Senate Republican Conference, flirted briefly with the idea of challenging Frist for the majority leader's job. To run the floor, Frist will have to rely heavily on his whip, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, who has more legislative experience. But that holds...
...While it certainly has the benefit of momentum, Frist's candidacy may not go unchallenged; Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is believed to be considering a run for Lott's spot as well. Santorum, one of the Senate's most consistently conservative voices, does not share Lott's or Frist's predilection for compromise. A Senate under his leadership would likely be a more adversarial - and far more friendly to the conservative wing of the GOP - than what would emerge under Frist...
...coming back at them stronger than ever, as the linchpin of Freedom Corps. Republicans are against paying people with time on their hands to do what they might do anyway. In 1997 House majority leader Dick Armey called AmeriCorps a "welfare program for aspiring yuppies," and Senator Rick Santorum described it as a sweet deal for those "picking up trash in a park and singing Kumbaya...
Besides being several decades behind on his cultural put-downs, Santorum was wrong on the economics. For just $7,600 in living expenses and a $4,725 educational voucher each, AmeriCorps members have worked full time in 1,100 communities. They have retrofitted hundreds of buildings for disabled access, planted 100,000 trees, tutored 500,000 students and built hundreds of houses with Habitat for Humanity...
...reaction was first one of relief," says Santorum. "We had heard rumors that the President was going to fund stem-cell research, and many of us thought this was going to be the Frist proposal." Santorum says Bush's decision might "actually stop further destruction of human life because the scientists who now are looking for robust funding programs are going to be working with these existing stem-cell lines. So the desire to create more stem-cell lines through destruction of human embryos will be alleviated...