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To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders
By Michael Abramowitz and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post, October 31, 2007; A03
_http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR20071030005
58_pf.html_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103000558_pf.html)
_The White House_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+White+House?tid=informline)
plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can
by administrative order while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with
Congress after concluding that _President Bush_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/George+W.+Bush?tid=informline)
cannot do much business with
the Democratic leadership, administration officials said.
According to those officials, Bush and his advisers blame Democrats for the
holdup of _Judge Michael B. Mukasey_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Michael+Mukasey?tid=informline)
's nomination to be attorney general,
the failure to pass any of the 12 annual spending bills, and what they see as
their refusal to involve the White House in any meaningful negotiations over
the stalemated children's health-care legislation.
White House aides say the only way Bush seems to be able to influence the
process is by vetoing legislation or by issuing administrative orders, as he
has
in recent weeks on veterans' health care, air-traffic congestion, protecting
endangered fish and immigration. They say they expect Bush to issue more of
such orders in the next several months, even as he speaks out on the need to
limit spending and resist any tax increases.
The events of recent weeks have "crystallized that the chances of these
leaders meeting the administration halfway are becoming increasingly remote,"
said
White House spokesman _Tony Fratto_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Tony+Fratto?tid=informline) .
Bush himself has been complaining more and more bitterly about congressional
Democrats in recent weeks. In a private meeting yesterday with House
Republicans in the East Room of the White House, Bush recalled how he had been
able to
work with Democrats when he was _Texas_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Texas?tid=informline)
governor and said he had hoped to find the
same relationships in Washington.
"He sort of longs for those days, when both sides were genuinely interested
in getting along and getting a deal," said _Rep. Adam H. Putnam_
(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000586/) (R-Fla.), the
chairman of
the House Republican Conference, who helped organize yesterday's White House
meeting, attended by about 150 Republicans.
The president offered more criticism after the session. "Congress is not
getting its work done," Bush said. "We're near the end of the year, and there
really isn't much to show for it."
House Democratic leaders fired back at Bush with strong rhetoric of their
own. "The president wants the same complacent, complicit Congress that was a
co-conspirator in a coverup of what was going on in this country," said House
_Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer_
(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/h000874/) (D-Md.).
Both sides have their own political calculations for digging in, with the
White House and Republicans seeking to reestablish their credentials as fiscal
conservatives and with Democrats concluding that they are on the right side
politically on children's health care and other issues.
On some issues, the White House has become increasingly left out of the
legislative process. Bush's objection to any tax increases, for instance, has
pushed Republicans in the House and the Senate to pursue their own negotiations
over an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP),
concluding that a final bill must include a significant tobacco tax increase to
offset its cost.
Even as they offer the president public support, some Republicans on the Hill
are hinting that they might break with Bush if the price is right. Asked
yesterday whether he could support an SCHIP bill that Bush opposes, House
_Minority Leader John A. Boehner_
(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/b000589/) (R-Ohio)
suggested that is a possibility. "He has his position.
House Republicans have theirs," Boehner said.
While Bush castigated Democrats for lack of productivity, congressional
Republicans have had their own reasons for moving slowly. On SCHIP, for
example,
they have said that both sides could reach a deal if the Democratic leadership
would slow down and let negotiations proceed.
GOP _Sens. Charles E. Grassley_
(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/g000386/) (_Iowa_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Iowa?tid=informline) ) and
_Orrin G. Hatch_
(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/h000338/) (_Utah_
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Utah?tid=informline) )
personally appealed to _Senate Majority Leader
Harry M. Reid_ (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000146/)
(D-Nev.) for a delay yesterday. Reid agreed and asked the Senate to put off
consideration of the latest version of the bill to let bipartisan talks
continue. This time, _Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott_
(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/l000447/) (R-Miss.)
objected to the move.
"That makes an interesting statement about the president's press conference
this morning -- that 'we just can't get those Democrats to do anything,'" said
_Sen. John D. Rockefeller_
(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000361/) IV (D-W.Va.),
one of the SCHIP negotiators.
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