A recipe for indigestion; The president and Congress.(George Bush and Congress)(Congress reconvenes in the fall of 2001, as many differences with the Bush administration are anticipated)

Economist (US), The, September, 2001

The constructive bit of George Bush's presidency may be over already. But that does not make him a failure

GEORGE BUSH is in for a long, hot fall--fall, as in autumn, fall as in decline. As Congress reconvened this week, it set out the table for a debate over the vanished budget surplus and, by extension, Mr Bush's presidency. From his perspective, it is an unappealing menu.

Appetiser: education. The House of Representatives and the Senate have passed versions of his education-reform bill which no one in the White House likes. Congress is preparing to fillet it further by permitting states to test pupils so differently that it will be impossible to make sensible national comparisons. That would undermine attempts to hold schools accountable for...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.