Bush administration

The Bush Administration (1989-1993) had a similar free marketplace philosophy as Reagan, hut faced the daunting task of having to start directing billions toward cleaning up after forty years of neglect at the contaminated weapons complex, particularly the federal facilities at Savannah River South Carolina, Hanford Washington, and Rocky Flats Colorado. The cleanup plan was fourfold characterize and prioritize all waste cleanups at departmental sites, con-... 

One day late in his life, Patterson telephoned one of his former postdoctoral students, Robert W. Elias, at the Environmental Protection Agency. The George H. Bush administration was attacking the agency, and Patterson knew how that kind of pressure felt. 

There is some talk among politicians in the Bush administration about broad measures to restrict and control immigration of aliens who have no love or respect for the United States, and have a record to prove it. The central question seems to be, will our federal government respond with security arrangements to keep the terrorists out and be accountable for the success of such methods. Is our federal government actually aware that a whole new... 

January 17 At his confirmation hearing, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft reiterates the Bush administration s support for extending the ban on assault weapons when it comes up for renewal. 

April The Bush administration through spokesperson Scott McClellan affirms its continuing support for the assault weapons ban and for renewing the law. 

The United States and China, the countries that rank one and two in carbon emission, have not signed the Kyoto Protocol. In the United States, the Clinton Administration never acted on it, and there were certain terms the Bush Administration did not support. The future of the Kyoto Protocol, like the future of atmospheric carbon, is unclear. 

In the near future, government policies may be less supportive of the pharmaceutical industry than in the past. In the Bush administration, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt and FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach opposed federal efforts to negotiate lower prices for Medicare prescription drugs and to allow reimportation of prescription drugs at lower prices. In the Obama administration, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, and FDA chief deputy Joshua Sharfstein will likely change these policies. New laws and policies may do more to favor consumers. 

Mark McClellan, a physician and economist who led the FDA from 2002 to 2004. As FDA commissioner in the Bush administration, he opposed government regulation of the pharmaceutical industry and criticized European countries for inhibiting drug innovation with price controls. 

In accord with the federal government s unwritten rule that no bad deed goes unrewarded, the current Bush administration has reappointed Fisher to EPA and promoted her to Deputy Administrator. Not unexpectedly, the combination of an agency head —the scientifically unschooled EPA Administrator Christie Whitman—with an aggressive, unscientific, unprincipled deputy has been anathema to the creation of sound public policy (and a source of continuing embarrassment for the Bush administration). 

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