Yet Mr Bush is busy trying to persuade Congress to pass the huge tax cuts that form the centrepiece of his 2004 budget and his economic stimulus package.
But Bruce Josten, chief lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says right now his organization's top priority is the flagging economy and shaping a new economic stimulus package.
The federal government has given billions of dollars in grant, rebates and tax credits as part of its economic stimulus package to achieve two key goals: promoting clean energy development and creating jobs.
Guynn follows the news and knows about the major economic stimulus package.
The Tories want more for the NHS, Plaid want an enhanced economic stimulus package and the Lib Dems are urging ministers to move on education spending.
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Williams shrugs when asked how the politicians in Washington could help her with an economic stimulus package and says she is beginning to compromise in her job search, looking for openings in retail sales or other positions that would pay her less than at Caterpillar but allow her to keep up with the mortgage and feed her children.
Not only is the economic stimulus package loaded with pork and welfare, but it will also inflict damage on American businesses, large and small.
Most applauded the economic stimulus package worked out by Congress and the White House, but said they'd go further with permanent, not temporary, tax cuts, and more incentives for business.
Up first in the House is the economic stimulus package negotiated this week by House leaders and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
America's stimulus package is appropriate to its fiscal position and economic outlook.
And I believe we can address those with a good economic-stimulus package.
And what about other measures, such as passing a second economic stimulus package or expanding drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)?
Obama's economic stimulus package failed to stimulate the US economy and increased the US's economic deficit to heights undreamed of by his predecessors.
Obama also has encountered resistance from Democrats who are reluctant to support his economic stimulus package because they object to his hard line against earmarks and his proposed tax breaks for businesses.
If that were to be the case, Mr Greenspan suggested that the authorities might have to go beyond the conventional ways of stimulating the economy through monetary policy and fiscal policy (such as Mr Bush's stimulus package) and also look at further improving America's economic flexibility.
Congress is currently debating an economic stimulus package that would spend nearly a trillion dollars on measures of doubtful timeliness and efficacy.
And last week a senior US Democrat said legislators must be willing to consider the possibility of a second economic stimulus package.
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