Archive for May, 2007
Bush Calls for Global Emissions Goals President Bush, seeking to blunt international criticism of the U.S. record on climate change, on Thursday urged 15 major nations to agree by the end of next year on a global emissions goal for reducing greenhouse gases.
Bush called for the first in a series of meetings to begin this [...]
Wolfowitz replacement has been selected President Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former U.S. Trade Representative, as the new president for the World Bank to replace Paul Wolfowitz, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.Bush plans to announce his selection Wednesday and expects the bank’s board to accept it, the administration official said… CNN
Fred Thompson Running [...]
The Note: For Bush, No Clean Break Congressional breaks are supposed to be fun for President Bush — no pesky meetings with Democrats, no competition for the media spotlight, plenty of time for recess appointments that don’t need Senate confirmation. Coming off what may have been the president’s best week of the year last week, [...]
House Votes to Lift Veil Over Lobbyists’ Donations The House voted Thursday to drag into public view the role that registered lobbyists play in soliciting and collecting contributions for political campaigns, exposing for the first time one of the most effective ways that influence-seekers ingratiate themselves with lawmakers and presidents.
The measure goes to the heart [...]
The Note: Hillary on the Hot Seat What happened to the inevitable candidate? Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., wasn’t supposed to have to work this hard for the 2008 Democratic nomination. But now, coping with the fallout of a leaked campaign memo and facing her own potential $87 billion moment (this time, the price tag [...]
Democrats Blink, Angering Antiwar Ranks Media analysts are casting the Democrats’ decision to pass an Iraq spending bill without a pullout provision as a win for the White House. MSNBC’s Hardball, for example, said “after weeks of refusing to back down to the White House, today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did just that.” NBC [...]
