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Michael Scanlon, who is Abramoff's former partner and has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a Congressman, in 2001 told the New Times of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that Abramoff had "a relationship" with the President. "He doesn't have a bat phone or anything, but if he wanted an appointment, he would have one," Scanlon said. Nonsense, say others. A former White House official familiar with some Abramoff requests to the White House said Abramoff had some meetings with Administration officials in 2001 and 2002, but he was later frozen out because aides became suspicious of his funding sources...
...larger decline than those that have not. Reductions are particularly steep, he found, in states that restricted the use of Medicaid funds to pay for poor women's abortions and those that required pre-abortion counseling about fetal development and abortion risks. (Lisa complied with that rule by phone...
...Panetta, a Democrat who was Budget Director under Clinton and is a former chairman of the House Budget Committee, chuckled when he heard about Bush's plan to project an image of restraint. "What the hell's he using for numbers to map that out?" Panetta asked over the phone from Seaside, Calif., where he runs the Panetta Institute, a nonpartisan center for the study of public policy. "He has put us in a deep hole that's going to be very tough...
...It’s a kind of coup d’etat,” Elbegdorj said in a phone interview Wednesday night...
...phone conversation with a reporter in Cambridge provided Elbegdorj with a welcome respite from his political woes, the Harvard alum said...