We are witnessing back-of-house success in administration that leads to front-of-house success in the experience for more than a hundred million pilgrims.
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With shadowing, I can go to all the people who are doing their administration in-house and I can save them money.
In an assessment backed by several of Clarke's colleagues in the Clinton administration, he is described by some in the Bush White House as a "my-way-or-the-highway type, " who can become irritable and difficult to work with if he does not believe his views are being heeded.
Will the White House -- will the administration weigh in, in opposition to that?
And it really is, in this day and age of the kind of technology we have and how hard it is to keep something like that secret, it is really a remarkable testament to the fact that those individuals who did know in the administration -- I mean, in the White House, in the Defense Department, in the CIA, other agencies, understood how vital operational security was.
Have you been able to find anything out on the number of administration officials -- there were over 100 in the House.
We are particularly pleased that the Senate has now joined the House in embracing a proposal that the administration embraces, so-called statutory pay-as-you-go legislation.
For example, Ohio Republican Bob Ney, the so-called Representative Number One in the plea, is chairman of the House Administration Committee, sort of the mayor of the House side of Capitol Hill.
Legislation to require cost basis has been introduced in both the House and Senate--although those bills don't go as far as the administration's proposal, which would require brokers to track holding periods so the IRS can check up on whether your gains should be taxed as short term (at a top rate of 35%) or long term (at a top rate of 15%).
The Administration proposed, and the Senate just joined the House in passing, statutory pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) legislation.
In an interview with CNN, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, also called on the administration to hold a budget summit with members of Congress.
Congress is in exploratory mode now, and any major legislation is likely to take place during the next administration--when lawmakers and lobbyists know who they're dealing with in the White House.
Frank's bill is still in its infant stages--no word yet on the administration's position. (The White House typically doesn't take a stance this early in the legislative game.) But if history is an indicator, anything that might impose more regulation on U.S. oil companies is not likely to go over well at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
In the hearing, the administration was represented by Karen Evans, the White House's administrator of e-government and DHS's undersecretary Robert Jamison.
But history shows it will be an uphill battle for the Bush administration, because the party in control of the White House usually loses congressional seats in the mid-term elections.
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