The country - including the Bush administration - is split on the issue.
And they also believe that a Republican presidential administration -- namely, a potential George W. Bush administration -- will not be as interested in government activism as a solution to the problem.
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Senior White House aides also called Cheney's remarks as a pre-emptive move to reduce economic expectations for a Bush-Cheney administration.
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Fortunately, the Bush-Cheney administration has just put out the word that it has not ruled out increasing the defense budget this year, after all.
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Of particular concern to the Bush-Cheney administration is that Mr. Robinson says about 40% of companies on his private list are oil concerns or energy-related firms.
So let's set aside, then, the argument that the Bush administration, based on that argument -- assuming the Bush administration is arguing they didn't knowingly release people that they thought would go back into -- and join the battle in a different place.
The White House, meanwhile, said those security procedures -- some dating back to the Bush administration -- are now under review.
Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University): Well, I think what this really represents to me is Bush's--the Bush administration's willingness to only appeal to a very narrow conservative base.
The Bush administration - which in the past has praised Musharraf for his cooperation in the war against terror - offered a measured response to Bhutto's remarks.
The view in the Bush administration - says this one-time member - was that you should make the broadest claims possible so that the president wouldn't be shackled in the future.
It is worth noting that this maladroit and shortsighted policy may have profound political costs to the Bush Administration -- even as they are incurring significant strategic costs to the nation.
Despite efforts by the then-Bush administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Foggy Bottom counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, to try to find some programmatic accommodation with the Russians, in the end President Bush stood firm.
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Mr Cheney's speech was the latest in a series by top administration officials promoting what is emerging as a new doctrine of the Bush administration - that the US must be prepared to take pre-emptive action against new security threats.
So instead of a 10-1 ratio with the Bush administration, we have a 5-1 ratio.
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This brings me to a potential disaster--the Bush Administration's steel import quota.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other top-level Bush administration officials scheduled a news conference for later Friday and a similar briefing was in Miami.
Their worry now is just that a too hands-off Bush administration will lose what few opportunities there are to get talks going again between Israel and the Palestinians.
On the world stage, one interesting test if Bush wins a second term would be his ability to manage strains in longtime alliances because of the war in Iraq and other first-term Bush administration decisions.
Bush administration officials -- Powell among them -- argued that Iraq had harbored stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, a hidden nuclear weapons program and long-range missiles in violation of the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
For this gamble to pay the sorts of long-term returns the Bush Administration hopes for, however, it must be rooted in hard-headed realism, based on transparency and practical measures.
It names Gonzales -- who was President George W. Bush's counsel when the Guantanamo Bay detention center was established -- and other top Bush administration officials John C.
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Majority GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate -- and the Republican presidential campaign of Texas Gov. George W. Bush -- have repeatedly slammed the Clinton-Gore administration for what they say is a failure to create a national energy policy aimed at keeping per-gallon prices for gasoline relatively low.
After an earlier hands-off approach, the Bush administration has recently adopted a more active role in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
His appeal sprang from who he was: a fresh young senator offering a new direction after the clapped-out administration of George Bush and a safer pair of hands than the 72-year-old John McCain.
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White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe on Wednesday said media reports had overblown differences between the Bush administration and al-Maliki.
While pledging a "strong and continued commitment" to safeguarding national security, in late-April the Bush administration issued 90 pages of regulations to implement a new law tightening security reviews of foreign investments.
At the Bush-Putin meeting, the administration called for Russia's membership of the World Trade Organisation once it has signed a protocol outlining the reforms needed to get its economy ready, which may take years.
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El-Baz also said the Bush administration's perceived inaction has badly damaged U.S. interests in the Arab world -- from oil interests to trade to American travel abroad.
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