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KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) cited Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s foreign policy adviser Wednesday in rejecting Kerry's criticism of the Bush administration for the disappearance of hundreds of tons of explosives from Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime. Cheney said the facts surrounding the missing explosives are unclear, that Kerry "doesn't know" the answers and that Kerry adviser Richard Holbrooke "admitted as much." "John Kerry will say and do anything except give our troops the backing and praise they deserve," Cheney said while campaigning near the heart of the most...

VP Cheney Predicts on NBCNEWS TODAY SHOW Monday: Election Results Will 52% Bush, 47% Kerry...

The Associated Press FARMINGTON, N.M. - "You're being so nice," Lynne Cheney said to her husband, by way of signaling that she was not about to be. With that, the wife of the vice president of the United States took over from Dick Cheney. He had given a wordy, government-speak response to a questioner's complaint about costlier Medicare premiums. His answer included only a mild rebuke of Sen. John F. Kerry. "I've watched Sen. Kerry go across the country lambasting the president about the 17 percent increase," she said, "when he actually voted for it." Kerry did not specifically vote...

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KERRY AND CHENEY ON ALLIES [09/06 04:52 PM] John Kerry, quoted by Reuters: Kerry called the president's talk about a coalition fighting alongside about 125,000 U.S. troops "the phoniest thing I've ever heard." "You've about 500 troops here, 500 troops there and it's American troops that are 90 percent of the combat casualties and it's American taxpayers that are paying 90 percent of the cost of the war," he said. "It's the wrong war, in the wrong place at the wrong time." Vice President Cheney's Remarks Today In Clear Lake, Iowa, 9/6/04And now when the President praises our allies, Senator...

Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to speak with Sean Hannity on his radio show in a few minutes. If you get a moment, read the transcript of the VP's speech this morning from Dayton, Ohio, at the White House web site. He is brutal in refuting Kerry's "unilateral" and "sensitive war" comments.

Read this on NRO's "Kerry Spot" blog. Classic surgical strike by Cheney.A new statement by Vice President Dick Cheney, circulated by the campaign: "John Kerry has had some difficulty explaining where he stands on the liberation of Iraq. He voted for the war. Then he was against the war when it was politically expedient. Now John Kerry says he was for the war. But now some of his own aides are saying that his vote to authorize force wasn't really a vote to go to war. "That statement cannot be reconciled with what he said when he voted in 1991...

In another sign of Arizona's rising political significance, Republicans announced Saturday that Vice President Dick Cheney will campaign in Tucson next weekend. About 75 local supporters of President Bush, celebrating the opening of a new GOP office on the Northwest Side, were the first to get word of the trip. They responded with applause, cheers and bold predictions for what the trip could mean come November. "It will help energize the Republican Party here," Rep. Jim Kolbe said at the reception for the opening of the new office, 5151 N. North Oracle Road. "I'm confident we'll have a good victory,...

John Kerry has referred to U.S. allies in the war in Iraq as a "coalition of the coerced and the bribed," and Dick Cheney has something to say about that. "Many questions come to mind," the vice president said, "but the first is this: How would Kerry describe Great Britain — coerced or bribed?" Another quote: "If such dismissive terms are the vernacular of the golden age of diplomacy Senator Kerry promises, we are left to wonder what nations would care to join any future coalition." The vice president continued that Kerry sounds as if he respects only those nations...

Remarks by the Vice President at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum 40 Presidential Drive Simi Valley, California 10:41 A.M. PST THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Well, thank you very much, Fred. I appreciate the warm welcome to Simi Valley, and to the library of one of our greatest Presidents. Today is my first chance to have a look around the Ronald Reagan Library. For me, it's a reminder of what a great privilege it is to know President Reagan, and to have worked with him during my time in the Congress. We're pleased as well to be joined...

Senator John Kerry attacked President Bush's policy on Iraq today, asserting that the president's decisions had left the United States less secure and more isolated. Vice President Dick Cheney counterattacked at once, declaring that Mr. Bush had proved himself to be a clear-eyed and consistent commander in chief. "We're still bogged down in Iraq, and the administration stubbornly holds to failed, unilateral policies that drive potential, significant, important, long-standing allies away from us," Mr. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said in a speech at George Washington University here. "What we have seen is a steady loss of lives...

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Change in GOP Running Mate Seems Unlikely AP By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Dick Cheney (news - web sites) is only six years older than President Bush (news - web sites), but his long government resume and graying presence helped offset the Texas governor's lack of seasoning and foreign policy experience in 2000. Those same avuncular qualities seem less politically reinforcing now, with Bush facing a difficult re-election battle and Cheney, 63, burdened by political baggage of his own. Allegations of profiteering in Iraq (news - web sites) by oil services giant Halliburton, which Cheney once headed,...

The Hard Sell: He sifted intel. He brooded about threats. And he wanted Saddam gone. The inside story of how Vice President Cheney bought into shady assumptions and helped persuade a nation to invade Iraq. Nov. 17 issue — Every Thursday, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have lunch together in a small dining room off the Oval Office. They eat alone; no aides are present. They have no fixed agenda, but it’s a safe assumption that they often talk about intelligence—about what the United States knows, or doesn’t know, about the terrorist threat. THE PRESIDENT RESPECTS...

<p>Sacramento -- Just two weeks after he will be inaugurated as governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to launch an aggressive drive to raise money from big- money contributors to repay as much as $7 million in campaign debts, according to people familiar with his plans.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court rebuffed Vice President Dick Cheney, refusing to intervene in a lawsuit delving into the role of business executives and industry lobbyists in formulating the Bush administration's energy plan in 2001.</p> <p>The administration won only three votes in favor of rehearing the request to step into the case in which Cheney and his energy task force are being ordered to turn over a large number of documents to the conservative group Judicial Watch and the environmental group Sierra Club. The request for a rehearing went to nine appeals court judges.</p>

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH -- (House of Representatives - July 16, 2003) ---    The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gingrey). The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon) is recognized for 40 minutes.    Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. I sat in my office last night and listened to Member after Member on the other side rail about President Bush and whether or not we could trust him in the Iraqi situation. I have listened to my colleagues tonight. Enough is enough. Mr. Speaker, this is just outrageous.    So what I have done is I have got a whole file here,...

To: xxxxx@nytimes.com From: Adam Clymer (xxxx@nytimes.com) Subject: The Times Colleagues, I think it's time to take a deep breath and think about the New York Times. I share your contempt for Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg. And I share your anger at some of the failures of management that enabled them. I agree with a lot of what Times people have told outside reporters, either directly or in internal E-mails that have quickly found their way to the Internet. In particular, Peter Kilborn made the case against Bragg's excuses with telling effect. But I think by now we have hit...

SANTA FE, N.M. Democrats from the West came here in mid-May to share political hopes and fears and to reassure one another that despite President Bush's popularity, their party has a future. Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, one of the party's handful of big winners last fall, said Democrats had to "develop a strong economic message" and "a strong national security message." Mr. Richardson said the security message had to make it clear that "if we need to use force, we do it." But other Democrats at the meeting of the Western caucus of the Democratic National Committee either...

ZEELAND, Mich. The Republican Party's dream of becoming the dominant party was on full display the other day at the Ottawa County Lincoln Day dinner here. Although George W. Bush lost Michigan in 2000 and the state elected a Democratic governor last November, the national and state party officials heaping roast beef and chicken onto their plates at the local fish and game club were buoyantly predicting they would take the state in 2004. The attorney general of Michigan, Mike Cox, elected in 2002 by 5,200 votes after carrying Ottawa County by 40,712, said President Bush could count on a...

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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate revived the backbone of President Bush's formula for stimulating a laggard economy Thursday, narrowly passing a $350 billion package of tax cuts that would suspend all taxes on stock dividends for three years.</p> <p>The Republican bill, passed on a 51-49 mostly party-line vote, is less than half the size Bush sought but one that advances previously scheduled reductions in income tax rates, provides $20 billion in new aid to state and local governments and raises taxes for a few.</p>

Just saw. The Senate voted 51-50, with Cheney casting the tie-breaking vote, to pass the Nickles amendment which reinstitutes to the budget, for a period of three years, the elimination of double taxation on dividends.

Transcript for March 16 Guest: Vice President Dick Cheney Copyright 2003, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.        PLEASE CREDIT ANY QUOTES OR EXCERPTS FROM THIS NBC TELEVISION PROGRAM TO “NBC NEWS’ MEET THE PRESS.”        NBC News        MEET THE PRESS        Sunday, March 16, 2003        GUEST: Vice President DICK CHENEY        MODERATOR/PANELIST: Tim Russert - NBC News        This is a rush transcript provided for the information and convenience of the press. Accuracy is not guaranteed.        In case...

VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY TO APPEAR EXCLUSIVELY AS GUESTS ON 'MEET THE PRESS' SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2003Published: March 14, 2003Vice President Dick Cheney will appear on this Sunday's edition of "Meet the Press with Tim Russert" to discuss "Iraq: How Close Are We to War?" Tim Russert is the moderator of "Meet the Press." Betsy Fischer is the executive producer. Erin Fogarty and Michelle Jaconi are producers. "Meet the Press" is regularly seen from 9-10 a.m. ET, except in Washington, D.C. and New York City where the broadcast is seen from 10:30-11:30 a.m. ET. Please check local listings or the...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 — The Bush administration has put a much tighter lid than recent presidents on government proceedings and the public release of information, exhibiting a penchant for secrecy that has been striking to historians, legal experts and lawmakers of both parties. Some of the Bush policies, like closing previously public court proceedings, were prompted by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and are part of the administration's drive for greater domestic security. Others, like Vice President Dick Cheney's battle to keep records of his energy task force secret, reflect an administration that arrived in Washington determined to strengthen the...

By ADAM CLYMER The New York Times WASHINGTON — Republicans are poised to buck history and make slim gains in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, according to analyses by campaign officials of both parties, the latest polls, and reports from political experts around the country. Race-by-race examinations of competitive districts indicate that Republicans are more likely to increase their total of 223, in a House of 435 members, than to suffer a net loss, much less lose the majority. Parties holding the White House almost always lose House seats in off-year elections, as weaker candidates who rode in on...

HERMANTOWN, Minn. (AP) - Republican candidates in Minnesota hope to get a boost in the final days of the campaign when Vice President Dick Cheney leads a rally near Duluth on Friday. Several GOP candidates are expected to attend the rally at Hermantown Middle School, including U.S. Senate candidate Norm Coleman, gubernatorial candidate Tim Pawlenty, state auditor candidate Patricia Awada; secretary of state candidate Mary Kiffmeyer and attorney general candidate Tom Kelly. Dan Urshan, a longtime member of the Republican Party and former mayor of Hermantown, said Cheney will bring along some unnamed special guests. "We've been working on trying...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  Vice President Dick Cheney received a clean bill of health Friday after a routine cardiovascular exam, the White House said.</p> <p>Spokeswoman Mary Matalin said that Cheney's doctor, Jonathan Reiner, reported that the vice president's high-tech pacemaker "continues to function flawlessly and has not detected nor treated any arrhythmia."</p>

Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao, the heir apparent to President Jiang Zemin will meet with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on May 1.Hu's trip was announced when Bush went to Beijing in February.The White House formally said Thursday that Hu will meet his counterpart, Cheney, to discuss and array of issues.'The United States and China both have a strong interest in maintaining peace, stablilty and prosperity in the Asia Pacific region,' the admistration said in a prepared statement.Several White House officials said Hu will also meet with Bush and probably with Powell.Hu also plans stops in Honolulu, New...