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“Pivotal days for Frist and the GOP
The Senate majority leader faces a test of party loyalty and leadership as 'nuclear option' on judicial nominees draws near.” (Christian Science Monitor 5-10-05)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0511/p01s02-uspo.html
“Pastor Says Ouster a Misunderstanding” (ABC/AP 5-8-05)
“WAYNESVILLE, N.C. May 8, 2005 — A pastor who led a charge to kick out nine church members who refused to support President Bush said Sunday it was all a misunderstanding, as some of the congregants who said they were ousted showed up for church anyway. ”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=738989
“Teachers, Scientists Vow to Fight Challenge to Evolution
Creationists Seek Curriculum Change; Kan. Education Hearings Open Today” (WP, 5-5-05)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/0 5/04/AR2005050402022.html
“Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases” (NYT, 5-2-05)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/arts/television/02public.ht ml?hp&ex=1115092800&en=1085de148e09623c&ei=5094&partner=h omepage
“Poll: Most in U.S. say Iraq war not worthwhile” (CNN, 5-3-05)
“Fifty-seven percent of those polled said they did not believe it was worth going to war, versus 41 percent who said it was, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,006 adults.”
“That pushes the total cost of the Bush administration's war on terror to more than $300 billion, according to The Associated Press.
In March 2003, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a House panel that Iraq, with its oil resources, "can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." ”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/03/iraq.poll/index.html
“Bush says personal accounts aren't permanent solution”
“A Washington Post/ABC News poll taken March 10-13 found that 35% of Americans approve of his handling of the issue. “
“The accounts would do nothing to ensure Social Security's solvency as the big baby-boom generation nears retirement” according to USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-03-16-bush-news -conference_x.htm
“Medicare: The Next Riddle for the Ages” (USATod 3-16-05)
“Social Security's fiscal problems escalate in about 2018, when it is projected to begin paying out more in benefits than it receives in taxes; Medicare reached that milestone last year”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20 05-03-16-medicare-riddle_x.htm
“Analysis: For Bush, huge federal deficits may be one of his legacies “(USATod, 3-19-05)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20 05-03-19-bush-legacy_x.htm
Greenspan Says Federal Budget Deficits Are 'Unsustainable' (NYTimes, 3-3-05)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/politics/03deficit.html
“Bush asks Congress for $82 billion for war costs”
(USATod, 2-14-05)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-14-bush-war- costs_x.htm?csp=21&pubdate=Mon%20Feb%2014%2019%3A15%3 A24%20EST%202005
“Bush threatens to veto changes to Medicare prescription drug benefit” (AP/CNN, 2-11-05)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/11/bush.medicare.ap/index.html
“Drug benefit estimate $720 billion over 10 years” (AP/CNN, 2-9-05)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/09/medi care.costs.ap/index.html
“Bush sends $2.57 trillion budget proposal to Congress” (AP/CNN, 2-7-05)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/07 /bush.budget.ap/index.html
George W. Bush 2005 State of the Union Speech Feb 2, 2005
“So here is the result: Thirteen years from now, in 2018, Social Security will be paying out more than it takes in. And every year afterward will bring a new shortfall, bigger than the year before. For example, in the year 2027, the government will somehow have to come up with an extra $200 billion to keep the system afloat -- and by 2033, the annual shortfall would be more than $300 billion. By the year 2042, the entire system would be exhausted and bankrupt. If steps are not taken to avert that outcome, the only solutions would be dramatically higher taxes, massive new borrowing, or sudden and severe cuts in Social Security benefits or other government programs.”
GO TO SPEECHES PAGE FOR ENTIRE TEXT
Congressional Budget Office :“Updated Long-Term Projections of Social Security” (Jan 2005)
“CBO projects that under current law Social Security outlays will first exceed revenues from payroll taxes and taxation of benefits in 2020 and and that the program will exhaust the trust funds in 2052. After the trust funds are exhausted, Social Security spending cannot exceed annual revenues. As a consequence, because dedicated revenues are projected to equal 78 percent of scheduled outlay in 2053, CBO finds the benefits paid will be 22 percent lower than scheduled benefits.”
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/60xx/doc6064/01-31-Long-Term_Pr ojections.pdf
FROM USA TODAY web(“Bush moves to privatize Social Security”) (Nov 15, 2004):
“A starting point is a plan proposed by a presidential commission in 2001 that would divert 2% of workers' payroll taxes into private accounts. The remaining 4.2% — and the Social Security taxes employers pay — would go into the system, helping fund benefits for current retirees. That leaves a shortfall of at least $2 trillion to continue funding benefits for those current retirees.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-11-10-social-security_x.htm?csp=21& pubdate=Mon%20Nov%2015%2013%3A36%3A45%20EST%202004
“Doubt cast on Bush fix for Social Security
Congress' expert says private accounts are no solution” (SF Chron, 2-12-05)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/12/MNG8ABA7RI1.DTL
“Bush Budget Raises Drug Prices for Many Veterans” (NYT, 2-7-05)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/politics/07budget.html?hp&ex=1107838800&en=43b7ef4 7d094d2a3&ei=5094&partner=homepage
“Powell playing quiet role in Bolton fight” (MSNBC/Wash Post 4-22-05)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7593040/
“TARGET to pull medicines used to make meth (msnbc, 4-2005)
Many cold remedies now to be sold from pharmacy counters”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7546053/
“Seattle man caught fire during surgery (MSNBC, 4-05)
Police launch investigation into 2003 incident
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7545053/
“torn beteen faith and science” (Newsweek/msnbc 4-05)
“ . . . Frist—who said he had reviewed court documents and videos—appeared on the Senate floor. Saying he "spoke more as a doctor than a senator," he declared that "there seems to be insufficient information to conclude" that Schiavo—an icon to religious conservatives—was in a "persistent vegetative state" that would justify allowing her to die.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7529448/site/newsweek/
“DeLay Addresses Members Of NRA” (WP, 4-18-05)
“Wayne LaPierre Jr., the NRA's executive vice president, called DeLay the NRA's steadfast ally in Congress”
“Earlier at the gathering, rock musician and gun-rights advocate Ted Nugent urged NRA members to be "hard-core, radical extremists demanding the right to self-defense" and to work daily to recruit new members”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61176-2005Apr17.html
“Reports to say airport screeners perform poorly”
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-04-16-airport-securit y_x.htm?POE=TRVISVA
Calif. teen killed in baseball bat attack
“A 13-year-old boy killed another teen by hitting him in the head with a baseball bat during an argument after a youth game, authorities said Wednesday.
Jeremy Rourke, 15, was pronounced dead at a hospital after the Tuesday night attack, said Brenda Shafer, a spokeswoman for the coroner's office.”
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2005-04-13-youth-killi ng_x.htm
“Former Cabinet members back Bolton” (CNN, 4-5-05)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/05/bolton.ap/index.html
“Bush nominates Bolton as U.N. ambassador” (CNN), 3-05)
“ Bolton drew fire from Democrats in 1994 when he said at a Federalist Society forum that "there is no such thing as the United Nations."
"If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference," he said. ”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/07/bolton/
“Sandy Berger pleads guilty to taking classified material” (CNN, 4-05)
“Clinton adviser to pay $10,000, will not face jail time”
“Rather than the "honest mistake" he described last summer, Berger acknowledged to U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson that he intentionally took and deliberately destroyed three copies of the same document dealing with terror threats during the 2000 millennium celebration.”
“He returned two of the five copies of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/01/berger.plea.ap/index.html
REPORT OF U.S. PRE-WAR IRAQ INTELLIGENCE (PDF TEXT OF FULL REPORT)
http://www.c-span.org/pdf/wmd_report.pdf
http://www.wmd.gov/report/index.html
“Politicians might feel repercussions of Schiavo case “(April 1, 2005) USA TODAY )
“Frist, a heart and lung surgeon who is eyeing a run for president in 2008, said he had reason to doubt Schiavo's diagnosis after he watched a videotape of her. Ornstein said that could be a problem. "For a heart surgeon to basically dump on what was a large array of neurologists who had close contact (with Schiavo) doesn't make him look good," Ornstein said “
“DeLay issued a statement Thursday warning that "the men responsible for this" will be held accountable and later suggested Congress could take unspecified action against the "arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary." “
“In a CBS News poll, 82% of Americans said Congress and President Bush should have stayed out of the matter; 74% said Congress was playing politics with the issue”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-31-schiavo-politics_x.htm
Calif. teen killed in baseball bat attack
“A 13-year-old boy killed another teen by hitting him in the head with a baseball bat during an argument after a youth game, authorities said Wednesday.
Jeremy Rourke, 15, was pronounced dead at a hospital after the Tuesday night attack, said Brenda Shafer, a spokeswoman for the coroner's office.”
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2005-04-13-youth-killi ng_x.htm
“Former Cabinet members back Bolton” (CNN, 4-5-05)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/05/bolton.ap/index.html
“Bush nominates Bolton as U.N. ambassador” (CNN), 3-05)
“ Bolton drew fire from Democrats in 1994 when he said at a Federalist Society forum that "there is no such thing as the United Nations."
"If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference," he said. ”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/07/bolton/
“Sandy Berger pleads guilty to taking classified material” (CNN, 4-05)
“Clinton adviser to pay $10,000, will not face jail time”
“Rather than the "honest mistake" he described last summer, Berger acknowledged to U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson that he intentionally took and deliberately destroyed three copies of the same document dealing with terror threats during the 2000 millennium celebration.”
“He returned two of the five copies of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/01/berger.plea.ap/index.html
“Rome becomes giant church for funeral of pope” (4-8-05, usatod)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04- 08-letter-from-rome_x.htm
“Pope John Paul II to be buried Friday ” (4-4-05) http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2005-04-04-pope-meeting_ x.htm?csp=21&pubdate=Mon%20Apr%204%2010%3A53%3A16%20 EDT%202005
“Bush says personal accounts aren't permanent solution”
“A Washington Post/ABC News poll taken March 10-13 found that 35% of Americans approve of his handling of the issue. “
“The accounts would do nothing to ensure Social Security's solvency as the big baby-boom generation nears retirement” according to USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-03-16-bush-news -conference_x.htm
“Medicare: The Next Riddle for the Ages” (USATod 3-16-05)
“Social Security's fiscal problems escalate in about 2018, when it is projected to begin paying out more in benefits than it receives in taxes; Medicare reached that milestone last year”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20 05-03-16-medicare-riddle_x.htm
“Analysis: For Bush, huge federal deficits may be one of his legacies “(USATod, 3-19-05)
“WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush frequently says he wants to solve big problems like Social Security's finances, not pass them on to future generations. It appears unavoidable, however, that Bush will leave a painful legacy of staggering government debt. “
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20 05-03-19-bush-legacy_x.htm
Greenspan Says Federal Budget Deficits Are 'Unsustainable' (NYTimes, 3-3-05)
“Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, warned on Wednesday that the federal budget deficits were "unsustainable," and he urged Congress to scrutinize both spending and taxes to solve the problem.”
“ . . . disagreed more adamantly with Republican lawmakers and Mr. Bush, who have steadfastly refused to put restrictions on new tax cuts.”
“"When you begin to do the arithmetic of what the rising debt level implied by the deficits tells you, and you add interest costs to that ever-rising debt, at ever-higher interest rates, the system becomes fiscally destabilizing," he told lawmakers. "Unless we do something to ameliorate it in a very significant manner," he added, "we will be in a state of stagnation."
“Extending all of the expiring tax cuts add about $1.8 trillion to the federal debt over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/politics/03deficit.html
“Bush asks Congress for $82 billion for war costs”
(USATod, 2-14-05)
“WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush asked Congress on Monday to provide $81.9 billion more for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for other U.S. efforts overseas, pushing the total price tag for the conflicts and anti-terror fight past $300 billion.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-14-bush-war- costs_x.htm?csp=21&pubdate=Mon%20Feb%2014%2019%3A15%3 A24%20EST%202005
“Bush threatens to veto changes to Medicare prescription drug benefit” (AP/CNN, 2-11-05)
“WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Friday threatened to veto any changes Congress tries to make to Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, which takes effect in January 2006.”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/11/bush.medicare.ap/index.html
“Drug benefit estimate $720 billion over 10 years” (AP/CNN, 2-9-05)
“WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare's new prescription drug program will cost taxpayers $720 billion over its first 10 years, with costs reaching $100 billion a year by the middle of the next decade, according to a new estimate by the Bush administration.
The new number is far higher than any previous estimate produced by the administration or Congress, . . . .
The new projection issued Tuesday runs from 2006 to 2015 and is not directly comparable to the $400 billion estimate lawmakers had when they narrowly approved Medicare legislation in 2003 or to the revised estimate of $534 billion that the White House issued just two months later, after the law was enacted”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/09/medi care.costs.ap/index.html
“Bush sends $2.57 trillion budget proposal to Congress” (AP/CNN, 2-7-05)
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