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THE DAILY MIS-LEAD
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IN THIS MIS-LEAD:
1. Today's Mis-Lead: Bush Supports Medicare Bill Despite Its Failure to Reign in Drug Costs
2. New Spotlight: Crimes Against Nature--Robert F. Kenndedy, Jr. Takes on the Bush Environmental Record
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TODAY'S MIS-LEAD: Bush Supports Medicare Bill Despite Its Failure to Reign in Drug Costs
President Bush has promoted his Medicare reform by focusing on the importance of keeping costs down. "We must protect seniors from high medical costs that can rob them of their savings." Before leaving for Great Britain earlier this week, he met with Congressional leaders, and warned them "to remember the promise we have made to America's seniors, and to vote yes for this legislation." But the 1,100 bill supported by the president expressly states the Medicare administrator cannot "interfere in any way with negotiations . . . and otherwise interfere with the competitive nature of coverage" of prescription drug costs, despite the success in other agencies of reducing costs by government pooled purchasing.
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NEW SPOTLIGHT: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Takes On the Bush Environmental Record
Under the guidance of Republican pollster Frank Luntz, the Bush White House has actively hidden its anti-environmental program behind deceptive rhetoric, telegenic spokespeople, secrecy and the intimidation of scientists and bureaucrats. In a ferocious three-year attack, the Bush administration has initiated more than 200 major rollbacks of America's environmental laws, weakening the protection of our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife.
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