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...Democrats are predictably skeptical of the party's recent "spend wisely" hosannas. "It's a miracle," says Wisconsin Rep. David Obey, sarcastically. "It's a St. Paul conversion on the road to Damascus." Obey, chairman of the House appropriations committee, was the architect of a plan to keep earmarks secret until the appropriations bills passed both houses, at which point they would be all but impossible to remove individually via votes on the house floor, as traditionally has been the case. Republicans were outraged at the maneuver and, sensing an opportunity, called out their opponents for a lack of transparency...
...federal government - over a dispute concerning earmarks, those sneaky provisions lawmakers place into bills that typically allot funds for projects in their home districts. Bush, in his June 16 radio address, also focused on earmarks - and referred to the Democrats with that old-school label: "tax-and-spend." Most significantly, Bush has vowed to veto any appropriations bill that comes in above the amount he has specifically asked for. That's most of them. Come late summer or early fall, a showdown between the President and Congress could be in the cards...
...says Brian Kennedy, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican. "This is a warning shot across the Democrats' bow," Kennedy says. "If you allow yourselves to spend willy-nilly, you're going to run the risk of facing a veto, and our numbers demonstrate that we have the ability and intention of sustaining that veto." That bravado, however, is also coupled with the begrudging realization that Republicans lost their majority last fall because of the perception that they were fiscally irresponsible. "The Republican leader has said any number of times that we need to earn...
...told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what? I have been very sick, am getting better and this is how it looks.... We spend too much time hiding illness. There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I'm not going to miss my festival...
...fact is, he's never won a statewide election. He is, in a sense, somewhat of a rookie and by virtue of that likely to be a target." Nevertheless, says Luckett, "I think we need to give Senator Barrasso some time to get settled into the U.S. Senate and spend some time there and show the people of Wyoming what he's all about before we start making any judgments...