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...TIME congressional correspondent Douglas Waller spoke with TIME.com Wednesday morning as the political world began its dissection of a Jeffords' likely defection...
...Douglas Waller:Key Senate Democrats like Harry Reid (the minority whip from Nevada) have been intensively wooing Jeffords to try to get him to defect from the Republican Party. And while the efforts have definitely stepped up over the last couple of weeks, it has just been an intensification of a long history of wooing; because of his propensity to vote with Democrats as often as he votes with Republicans, Jeffords has been a target for defection his entire Senate career...
...TIME congressional correspondent Douglas Waller reports, most of the Bush plan is long-term, non-specific, or by executive order (namely, directing federal agencies to expedite permits for new power plants and provide an "energy impact" statement for "any regulatory action that could significantly and adversely affect energy supplies...
...There's not a whole lot in this energy package that's going to demand legislation," Waller says. "Less than a lot of people in Congress were expecting." Instead, he says, the congressional battles between now and July won't be over the future of energy, but the present: high gas and electric prices that have constituents screaming, and the public perception that oilmen like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney may be congenitally unsympathetic to their plight...
...presentation. "Internal polling from both Democrats and Republicans show that Americans aren't willing to sacrifice the environment for increased supply of energy - a big vulnerability for the Republicans, and an opportunity for the Democrats, which is why Bush stressed environmentally friendliness so heavily in his speech," says Waller...