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Amadou Scattred


January 12, 2001
A publication of Votenet Solutions, Inc.

No More Governor Bush; Taps Unknown for Treasury
Mike Allen, Washington Post
President-elect Bush said today that he will nominate Paul H. O'Neill,
chairman of aluminum giant Alcoa Inc., as his Treasury secretary -- a choice
that put greater stock in relationships and government expertise than in the
traditional Wall Street résumé.


Clinton's Last Push for Mideast Peace
Financial Times
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met US President Bill Clinton at the
White House on Wednesday night. Mr Clinton would like to mediate a summit of
the respective leaders before he leaves office on January 20. However, with
the situation tense on the ground and important issues still unresolved,
hopes of reviving the peace process are being played down.


Black Caucus May Skip Inauguration
Susan Crabtree, Roll Call
President-elect George W. Bush plans to reach out to various Democratic
leaders with a visit to Capitol Hill this week, but he has yet to defuse a
powder keg of tensions among African-American Members set to explode if he
fails to quickly address the alleged voting-rights violations that occurred
during the election.


Black People Not Digging Nov. 7th Episode
Mike Clary, Los Angeles Times
The day Condoleezza Rice's smiling visage graced the front pages of both
daily newspapers here this week should have been, by all rights, a day of
celebration at Westminster Presbyterian Church.


Bios of the Bush Wagon
Washington Post
Biographies of current Bush Cabinet picks


Major Protests Expected Inauguration Day
David Montgomery & Arthur Santana, Washington Post
The raw wounds left by the presidential election finale have created enough
irritation to unleash one of the largest inauguration protests in years,
according to veteran organizers and police officials.


The Latest Picks
Edwin Chen, Los Angeles Times
President-elect George W. Bush named Alcoa Chairman Paul H. O'Neill as
Treasury secretary Wednesday and signaled his intention to move aggressively
to head off what he fears may be an economic downturn. In a separate
announcement later in the day, Bush nominated three other Cabinet members:
business executive and longtime associate Don Evans for Commerce secretary,
former California agriculture director Ann M. Veneman to be Agriculture
secretary and Mel Martinez, a county commissioner in Florida, for secretary
of Housing and Urban Development.


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Pontificating Media Picks
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post
Suddenly the nation's largest newspapers, which had been breathlessly
chronicling the tightest presidential battle of the modern era, are filled
with talk about federal agency heads. Long profiles of Dubya's nominees for
the Agriculture Department and the Commerce Department and the Housing and
Urban Development Department. Inside skinny on who has the best chance of
running EPA and Interior. Textual deconstruction of the possibilities at
HHS.


Beltway Bush
Editorial, Christian Science Monitor
President-elect George Walker Bush has a historic opportunity to lead the
nation based on the real mandate the American people have sent to
Washington: a mandate of the middle. It is a mandate to heal wounds and
reach across party lines, to bring into his government authentic voices of
the loyal opposition, and to ask of the opposition an equally authentic
spirit of cooperation to govern from the center.


Big Ups on Tax Cuts
James Flanigan, Los Angeles Times
Suddenly the idea of a tax cut is becoming respectable as worries mount
about the U.S. economy. The darkening outlook has prompted debate about how
a sizable tax reduction would affect growth and how quickly one could be put
into effect.


Revisiting Nazi Rhetoric
Richard Cohen, Washington Post
With the help of Richard Breitman, a historian at American University, I
resurrected Himmler's statements because lately I've been hearing echoes of
them. They came first in a National Public Radio documentary called "Witness
to an Execution" and, more recently, in a New York Times article titled
"Working Death Row." Both had to do with the people, the actual men and
women, whose job it is to put people to death. They work at the Huntsville
Unit of the Texas prison system -- the death house.


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Roll Call Votes:
U.S. House of Representatives

106th Congress, 2nd Session (2000)

As compiled through the electronic voting machine by the House Tally Clerks
under the direction of Jeff Trandahl, Clerk of the House.


U.S. Senate

106th Congress, 2nd Session (2000)

Lists the recorded votes taken yesterday and on other days during the past
week, indicating date of the vote, bill number if applicable, result of the
vote, and the description of the question on which the vote was taken.

In Congress:

This Week on the House Floor

106th Congress, 2nd Session (2000)

The schedule the House intends to consider this week.


Pending Business in the Senate

106th Congress, 2nd Session (2000)

Pending Business consists of any measures or motions which are currently
under consideration on the Floor of the Senate.



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