From Bush, Foe of Earmarks, Similar Items
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In his new budget, the president has requested money for thousands of items similar to the pet projects of Congress.
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The presidency comes with powerful tools that can help incumbents keep their jobs: a mighty public-relations machine, a bully pulpit, a famous airplane. Yet President Bush has been powerless to halt a recent tide of bad news, from surging violence and missing weapons in Iraq, to missteps by his own campaign, to a potentially damaging new probe by his own FBI.
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or months, President Bush has been playing down the findings of David Kay, the first American arms inspector, who debunked the claim that Saddam Hussein had possessed a hoard of weapons of mass destruction ready to use at any moment.
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Pocketbook issues traditionally trump other concerns in national elections. But foreign policy is getting equal time this year. For President Bush, national security is the overriding campaign issue.
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A look at some of the initiatives that President Bush is likely to push in his second term, and the unanswered questions that go with them.
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Opposition researchers plowed into the latest presidential filings yesterday, hunting for a nugget that might have the same impact on an opponent as the two $400 haircuts discovered in former senator John Edwards's last expense report.
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Presidential nominee John Kerry and other Democrats are organizing a new line of attack against President Bush, accusing him of stacking the federal government with friends and donors who are gutting regulations on U.S. corporations.
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Move over, MoveOn.org. The liberal-leaning group that has raised millions of dollars to run negative ads attacking President Bush now has a competitor on the right with a somewhat similar name.
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Scholars and historians are taking note of an uncommonly antagonistic relationship between Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, and President Bush.
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For lower-tier candidates, bashing Bush may seem like the only option. Top-tier candidates may find it too risky now to go negative against the president.
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President Bush on Thursday sought to smooth over differences with Sen. John McCain by promising to take legal action to stop political ads by outside groups, including those attacking the war record of Bush's Democratic presidential rival, John Kerry.
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Bush's move to allow its use is likely to get legal review, say conservationists who claim it threatens marine life.
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A number of spending initiatives promoted by President Bush as he seeks re-election are set to get less money than he wants from the Republicans who control Congress.
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President Bush has joined the list of those who would bend the Olympics to political ends. You might wonder at the company he keeps, since the list includes Jimmy Carter.
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President Bush took on Congress today over its appetite for special spending projects, announcing a new strategy of vetoes and executive action to cut the number of so-called earmarks in half during his final year in office and to open the rest to more scrutiny and debate.
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President George W. Bush has for the first time raised questions about documents used to bolster a report that he received preferential treatment during his Vietnam era military service.
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People find all sorts of ways to lobby President Bush. Sometimes it comes in the form of a handwritten note slipped into his palm during a bill-signing ceremony.