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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (250064)	4/23/2002 12:52:16 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

you mean the democarps were not really serious about campaign finance reform??? my my who could have guessed.... Message 17367997 Fox News has learned that dozens of election year demonstrations criticizing Republicans and the president for ties to fallen energy giant Enron Corp. have been coordinated by a little known group called the Progressive Donor Network. Documents show the network held a private conference in Washington earlier this month to discuss ways of raising and spending money when new campaign finance laws kick in after election day. Some of the most powerful Democratic leaning special interests attended, including the National Abortion Rights Action League, People for the American Way, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, environmental groups, labor groups, and others

To: ManyMoose who wrote (250064)	4/23/2002 12:54:06 AM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Respond to of 769670

WHITE HOUSE STONEWALL Democratic National Committee Press Office A Daily Review of the White House's Attempts to Keep America From Learning Their Secrets DAY 59 Monday, April 22, 2002 The White House Stonewall goes on, as the Bush administration continues to deny the non-partisan General Accounting Office's request for information on who the White House Energy Task Force met with while formulating national energy policy. What are they trying to hide? The Latest News on the White House Stonewall Vote Against ANWR Did Not Have Significant Impact on Bush's Energy Payback* Sunday's New York Times reported that the Senate's vote to block drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was only a minor setback for the energy industry's payback from the Bush administration. In addition to a plethora of favorable regulatory decisions and Bush administration officials with backgrounds in the energy industry, the Bush-backed House energy bill contains billions of dollars in tax breaks for energy companies. One administration official noted that, if necessary, 85 of Bush's 105 energy industry paybacks could come through executive orders. According to the New York Times, "One day after the release of the White House's national energy report last May, President Bush visited a Pennsylvania hydropower plant and vowed that his administration would quickly carry out the plan. 'I can assure the American people that mine is an administration that's not interested in gathering dust,' Mr. Bush said. That same day, Mr. Bush signed two executive orders that had been recommended by influential trade groups, the American Petroleum Institute and the American Gas Association. The orders were intended to speed the construction of new energy projects. Environmentalists and some Congressional Democrats criticized the president for what they described as allowing the industry to 'hold his pen.'" Responding to the Bush administration's Clean Skies initiative, which has been heavily criticized by environmentalists as not doing enough to prevent air pollution, Edison Electric Institute vice president of communications Bill Brier praised the policy. "We like the approach that they have proposed on the three-pollutant strategy," Brier said. "We feel this approach would eliminate 75 percent of pollutants people claim lead to health ailments." Link to story: nytimes.com Bush's Environmental Policymakers Are Energy Industry Alumni* Sunday's New York Times took note of the significant number of Bush administration officials who write environmental policy and have came from the energy industry: Donors from the energy and natural resources industry gave Interior Secretary Gale Norton $285,630 in contributions when she ran for Senator of Colorado; Former American Petroleum Institute lawyer Phillip Cooney is now the chief of staff for the Council on Environmental Quality, an environmental/economic policy advisory group within the Bush White House. The American Petroleum Institute is a lobbying group for the oil industry and a stark critic of global warming theories; Interior Department associate deputy secretary James E. Cason served the Interior Department in the Reagan administration and was notable for his attempts to prevent limits on oil and gas drilling in national forests; Described by a mining industry official as "an ally to the industry," Department of Interior deputy secretary J. Steven Griles formerly worked for a lobbying organization that represented the National Mining Association and other coal burning utility companies; The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, which makes recommendations to the president on environmental and public health issues, is currently being headed by John. D. Graham, who previously served as the director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. Notable donors and benefactors of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis include the country's largest energy, chemical and other heavily polluting companies. Link to story: nytimes.com (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) Print This Story E-mail This Story © : t r u t h o u t 2002 \| t r u t h o u t \| forum \| issues \| editorial \| letters \| donate \| contact \| \| voting rights \| environment \| budget \| children \| politics \| indigenous survival \| energy \| \| defense \| health \| economy \| human rights \| labor \| trade \| women \| reform \| global \| _______ bia