The question is whether he will be willing to blow up a bipartisan bill over the issue of vouchers.
The issue of vouchers is even more complex, said Mr. Cortines, who suggested that his successor, Rudy Crew, overreacted when Mr. Giuliani embraced the idea of a voucher experiment.
Still, the issue of vouchers has become so convoluted that it would seem to pose as many risks as benefits for both parties.
But it balked at the issue of vouchers, will have no more than a marginal impact on public education (which is largely a state, not a federal, responsibility) and will not give Mr Bush sole bragging rights anyway because most of it was written by Democrats.More important is the tax cut, the centrepiece of Mr Bush's term whatever else he does.
In his second term, he concentrated on the issue of school voucher reforms, as well as campaigning for marijuana decriminalization and legalization, and opposition to the War on Drugs.
But consider the matter of vouchers issued to parents by the federal government, to be used to pay their children's tuition.
Malawi's programme blended public and private sector involvement: the Malawi government oversaw the issue of flexi-vouchers to qualifying farmers, yet recipients were then able to spend these vouchers in an open market supplied by private-sector distribution channels.
In his first public comments on the ruling, Mr. Bush plunged into the politically explosive issue of school vouchers that he had so far avoided as president.
He says the Law Commission is looking at the issue of gift vouchers and deposits in insolvencies, which should clear up some uncertainty for consumers in the future.
One of Hungary's policies during the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy was the issue of compensation vouchers – a unique security designed both as a privatization mechanism and as a form of restitution for Hungarian citizens who suffered property losses in post-war nationalizations.
