The legislation was pushed through by Democrats in Congress, and a more Republican balance of power after the next election might make it more difficult to add to or renew the fund, advocates for adding cancer said.
The small Republican balance in Congress will help him, of course, and there are some Democrats who would, perhaps paradoxically, find a Bush victory more favourable to their interests (see article).
Ms. Rice and Mr. Bush seem to share a similar view of the world: a realist, Republican balance-of-power approach that focuses more on the big powers and less on the interests of "the international community".
So far, none of them have embraced the Republican balanced-budget proposal.
I await a reasonable counteroffer from Speaker Boehner: I am open to many possible deals, but as I have said on many occasions, I will not let the Republicans balance the budget while exempting the wealthy from their fair share of the burden.
He said Delaware voters wanted a Republican to balance the small assortment of elected national-level politicians from the state.
The number of seats in the House would rise from 435 to 437, because the deal that smoothed the bill through also gives an extra seat to Utah, in the expectation that the western state would elect a Republican to balance the Democrat DC was likely to elect.
He proposes to enlarge the House membership to 437 from 435, with a voting seat for Washington, an overwhelmingly Democratic city, plus another one, presumably Republican for balance, for a state like Utah, which barely lost a seat in recent redistricting.
Mr. Schumer, a political chess master and partisan pit bull, is seen by many of his colleagues as just what they need — a strategist who can keep Republicans off balance and better convey to the voting public what Democrats are trying to accomplish and why Republicans are standing in the way.
As a good Republican, he balances the state budget, but he is willing to spend where necessary.
In 1997, under Mr. Clinton, Mr. Lew worked with Republicans to balance the federal budget, enabling the president to leave office with a surplus.
