Congress turns its focus to business agenda

[Robbien]

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Republicans in Congress and their corporate allies see some daylight for pro-business legislation in the weeks ahead, now that judicial nominations and House Republican leader Tom DeLay's travails have slipped into a legislative twilight, at least for the moment.

As lawmakers return Tuesday from a Memorial Day recess, Republican leaders are eager to work on such business priorities as energy legislation, a Central American trade treaty and asbestos-litigation relief. Bipartisan success on those measures would temper weeks of partisan confrontation and give President Bush some needed victories after recent setbacks in Congress.

All three issues pose a leadership challenge, particularly to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who faces Republican defections on trade and asbestos and a difficult floor fight on energy.

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"It's very important to the president to show that there still is an agenda other than judges and Social Security," said Dan Danner, senior vice president for public policy at the National Federation of Independent Business. "At the end of the day I don't know that all of these (business-oriented bills) have to be signed into law, but the White House has to show that they're doing everything they can to get them passed."

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/11809470.htm

[Cocoa]

1. and now for something completely different...

[expatriot]

2. Oh, now that the rapture right has been thrown some fresh meat

to have distracted it.... now for the REAL agenda of the heart of the GOP.....

[katsy]

3. This is exactly what I feared...

IMO, the nuclear option and Democrats using parliamentary procedures to slow Senate business would have been preferable to passing corporate friendly legislation which the chimp uses to line gop coffers come election time.

As if congress hasn't already sucker-punched average working Americans with their corporate welfare friendly legislation... now they'll swoop in for the kill.

I CALL FOR THE NUCLEAR OPTION!

[Erika]

4. The U.S. is being ran as a GOP corporation with GOP

lawmakers acting as the corporate board of directors. Intent: Make the stockholders as wealthy as possible and the hell with consumers (workers).

[hedda_foil]

5. Slipped into legislative twilight?????

WTF is that supposed to mean? Congress has been on recess for the past week!

[Zorra]

6. "Republicans in Congress and their corporate allies"*

*The term "corporate allies" implies corporate ownership when used in conjunction with the word "republican" or in any phrase referring to republican legislators.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. kick