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Supporters of Graham maintained that criticism of HCRA has been already adequately addressed, and that opposition was largely partisan in nature...
Ropeik said that he felt the Senate debate on Graham was in some part partisan politics, but also the result of conflicting notions of how risk should be assessed...
...offered in the past. A week before Daschle planned to bring the Democrats' version of the patients bill to the floor, the White House still couldn't decide how it was going to attack it - whether to push for the Frist compromise measure or to side with the more partisan Nickles version. Lott was forced to stall Daschle on beginning the patients bill debate because he couldn't get Senate Republicans and the White House singing on the same sheet of music. "The White House fumbled around on what they wanted to do," griped a senior Senate GOP aide. "They...
...House is refusing, for the most part, to cooperate with a General Accounting Office investigation, requested by Democrats, of the operations of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. In fact, much tongue-clucking has ensued over at the White House. "We understand that there have been past, partisan battles over investigations, but these were battles and investigations this president and this administration were not involved in - this president was off in Texas being governor," Bush aide Dan Bartlett told the Washington Post...
...your watch. The two sides will cooperate in passing the education bill, because they'd already reached their compromises on the measure before Democrats took control of the Senate. Daschle next plans to bring up the Democratic patient's bill of rights measure, which Bush opposes, but the public partisan rancor there will probably stay in check because both sides realize they have to look like they're producing. But bipartisanship will quickly run out on the issue Democrats and Republicans consider one of the most critical the next four years: judicial nominees...