In Wyoming and Colorado, hunters have opposed Bush administration efforts to expand oil- and gas-drilling.
Last year, Congressional Republicans thwarted administration efforts to pass sweeping cybersecurity legislation.
Members of Congress from textile states have bitterly fought administration efforts to lift the barriers on such imports.
"Right now neither side has 218 votes," said Commerce Secretary William Daley, who is coordinating administration efforts to win passage.
[A1.] A judge has rejected administration efforts to protect as confidential documents from Vice President Dick Cheney's energy panel.
The trip was the latest of his increasingly frequent travels to battleground states to showcase administration efforts to create manufacturing jobs.
He was a key supporter of later measures on voting and housing and of efforts to thwart Reagan administration efforts to roll back those victories.
Mr. Biden said some of the Obama administration efforts that have been criticized by Mr. Cheney were similar to decisions made during the Bush administration.
A federal judge today again rejected Bush administration efforts to protect as confidential documents from Vice President Dick Cheney's energy committee.
Despite administration efforts to prevent it, the United States-led war on terrorism has merged with the Middle East's most intractable dispute.
A Dec. 18 news article says a United Nations conference ended "contentiously," when Asian countries rejected administration efforts to insert anti-abortion provisions into a family-planning agreement.
