“I really urge you to take a look,” Bush said. “I think you’re going to like what you see.” “I think it’s your responsibility to help your mom,” the president told one woman attending the event. “The best grassroots outreach is child to parent.” Bush admitted, “It can be confusing to people,” and added, “In [...]
President Bush, who has not vetoed any Congressional spending bill in his five years in office but never passes up an opportunity to make a stirring symbolic campaign gesture, says he supports such a constitutional amendment. No word on the subject, however, from Vice President Dick Cheney, who once said “deficits don’t matter.”
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, sought to avoid a showdown over the deadline by giving the Department of Health and Human services flexibility to act. He said, however, that he thinks enrollment is going well and that the Democrats seeking to push back the date are assuming “a bad outcome.”.