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...since Bush v. Gore have so many constitutional lawyers jumped on a case. First Amendment liberal Floyd Abrams has joined Starr. McCain and Feingold are assembling their own impressive team to help U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson defend the law. Sources say former Clinton Solicitor General Seth Waxman will lead lawyers from Common Cause, Democracy 21 and other reform groups...
Well, if Henry Waxman and the GAO really want to know what came out of Dick Cheney and Ken Lay's energy-policy deliberations last spring, here it comes. The Bush energy bill, which passed smoothly through the House of Representatives back when Enron was nothing to be ashamed of, is now ready for its close-up before Tom Daschle's altogether more hostile Senate...
...That may be why Dick Cheney has left his secure location and hit the road, disclosing to friendly (and often paying) gatherings everything the GAO would ever want about how much he hates Saddam Hussein. Cheney even dissed Waxman on Leno - and got a big hand - but the vice president wasn't taking any Enron questions from non-talk-show-hosts, thank you very much...
...energy plan that Cheney produced last year: open access to electric-utility transmission lines, more deregulation initiatives and support for Enron's arcane financial instruments. "There is no company in the country that stood to gain as much from the White House plan as Enron," wrote California Congressman Henry Waxman, a leading Democratic critic, in a letter to Cheney last week. In the recent battle over an economic-stimulus bill, Lay lobbied for--and Bush supported--retroactive corporate tax relief. Enron would have been one of many beneficiaries, reaping a $254 million rebate from the government...
...Waxman's line of questioning is exactly the kind of inquiry that White House officials say the public has no patience for. Lengthy probes into the provenance of a few sentences in an already aging federal report, they add, is the sort of duck soup that turned voters off about Washington and politics for much of the Clinton era. Republicans believe this in part because they learned that lesson the hard way. The party's take-no-prisoners wing is still smarting a bit from 1998, when it did not realize until too late that its drive for Bill Clinton...