Bush Could Face Big Fight in GOP Over Gay Issues
</p> The right has a catalog of complaints with Bush policy on homosexuality — from White House and top-level GOP meetings with gay groups to Bush’s signing a District of Columbia appropriations bill
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</p> The right has a catalog of complaints with Bush policy on homosexuality — from White House and top-level GOP meetings with gay groups to Bush’s signing a District of Columbia appropriations bill
</p> Family Portraits.
</p> He joined the Energy and Commerce Committee in January 2001 when Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) took over the committee.
</p> The only two Republicans currently running are Rep. Mark Foley and former Rep. Bill McCollum. Rep. Dave Weldon (R) said last week that he considering the race.
Dick Morris, the flexible political consultant who has worked for both then-President Bill Clinton and Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), allegedly owes the state of Connecticut a big chunk of back taxes.
</p> “This is a quintessential Washington story.
For example, Democrats pointed to the House GOP’s refusal to allow them to offer a substitute measure to the $550 billion tax bill as well as rules changes at the beginning of the 108th Congress that further
[IMGCAP(1)] </p> But it isn’t surprising that the Yazoo City native is popular in his hometown.
Bill Clinton over a loyal union ally, Sen. Tom Harkin (Iowa), in the Democratic primary.
</p> “[Frumin] called at 10 minutes to two [p.m.] to say that in his opinion it wasn’t a reconciliation bill,” said one senior Senate GOP staffer.
</p> Rogers has already put together coalitions of interest groups on four major Republican legislative initiatives this Congress: the energy bill, the medical liability bill, the bankruptcy bill and
</p> “But if another tax bill comes around or some other mechanism comes around, if we are looking at things to clean up the code or trying to focus on some other simplification or inequities such as
</p> Republicans are also pushing hard for passage of a Global AIDS bill, a legislative priority of both President Bush and some black leaders.
</p> “If Democrats become irrelevant, people will never be able to judge if our plans make any sense,” Hoyer said Tuesday.
In a stunning scene played out at the end of a long profile of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R) in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, the Tennessean is depicted sandbagging one of his colleagues.
</p> Edgar had been the top choice of national and state party leaders to run to replace retiring Sen.
</p> Furthermore, Americans don’t trust politicians when they say they will cut taxes.
</p> Two former aides to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.) and GOP Conference Vice Chairwoman Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas) have formed their own lobbying firm.
</p> In Colorado, Republicans were successful, with Gov. Bill Owens signing the new redistricting plan into law last Friday. Democrats vow to take the plan to court.