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...Senate, Republican Leader Trent Lott has been privately fuming over White House stumbles in organizing its response to the patients bill of rights. Bush had wanted to delay considering a patient's bill to pursue other priorities like his energy plan. He could stall when Republicans controlled the Senate. White House aides got Republican Congressman Charles Norwood to hold off sponsoring in the House a measure similar to the one Sens. Ted Kennedy, John McCain and John Edwards introduced in the Senate. In exchange, Bush aides promised to negotiate a compromise with Norwood. But while they kept Norwood closeted...
...lawsuits. "They concluded that the benefits of letting people sue the employer were much smaller than the potential cost," sponsor Phil Gramm said after the vote. The Senate also defeated (61-39) a move by Iowa's Charles Grassley to send the Democrats' bill back to committee (a classic stall tactic...
...number recorded in all of last year. A person who has been fired will pass through many of the same stages as those who are divorcing or who have just found out they have a terminal illness: deny the reality, hide out, feel betrayed by fate. Consequently, many people stall like mad rather than get on with life, making crazy decisions they will later regret. As the CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a 39-year-old outplacement firm that has helped thousands of people find work after a layoff, let me tell you how most people respond--and what they...
...After eight years of Clinton appointments, George W. Bush wants to quickly pack the federal courts with as many conservative jurists as he can. Daschle has promised not to block or stall confirmations as Republicans did with many of Clinton's judicial nominees. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the new chairman of the Judiciary Committee, insists there won't be payback for the last eight years when Republicans left many Clinton picks languishing in committee. But Leahy is quick to add, "we're not going to have a judiciary made up of ideologues on the right." Translated: W can probably expect just...
...likely to look a lot different once it goes through a panel headed by chairman Carl Levin, a leading skeptic. At Commerce, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings will put a shoulder to Bush's deregulatory push. While Democrats as a first gesture of conciliation dropped their efforts to stall the nomination of Solicitor General Ted Olson, Bush's more controversial judicial nominations may die in Leahy's Judiciary Committee--or be euthanized before they get there. On Saturday, for example, the New York Times reported that California conservative Chris Cox asked Bush not to nominate him to the federal bench...