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Senate Dems urge Bush not to retaliate against Medicare actuary
A group of Democratic senators sent a letter Monday to President Bush, asking the administration not to retaliate against a Medicare actuary who has said White House officials pressured him not to share cost estimates of the Medicare bill with members of Congress.
The actuary, Richard Foster, said he had been warned not to respond to certain requests from members of Congress about the cost of the Medicare drug bill, according to published reports.
In the letter, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ranking member Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Jon Corzine, D-N.J., asked Bush to instruct staff not to engage in "unfair and untoward retaliation," as they have toward other critics of the administration.
The senators cited former Treasury Secretary Paul O' Neill and Ambassador Joseph Wilson as such targets.
"It is vital that politics not influence the investigation into Mr. Foster's allegations, which, if substantiated, could constitute significant wrongdoing on the part of some," the letter stated.
COMMENTS
- WoW! Talk about an ethical vacuum! What has the US come to when our Chief executive has to be urged not to retaliate against a federal employee [trying to speak the truth]. God help us. GovExec.com reader Posted March 18, 2004 5:21 PM
- Bush and his henchmen have no ethics. The guy is a reformed drunk that sees nothing as morally correct for the Nation. He has reduced pollution restraints to the point they are useless, he has increased the deficit to outrageous levels, he has harmed government workers that question him, he falsified reports on Iraq to justify war, he has killed hundreds of young Americans in the name of terror, he has created Homeland Security that is a joke and waste of money, he has no child left behind that is strictly political pap and harms kids getting a decent education, he has lost jobs since taking office rather than generating jobs, he has rewarded his friends financially with government contracts, he has taken apart the civil service system in defense and homeland security to reward his friends in government jobs, and he looks and speaks stupidly and that is non-presidential. He is a sorry representative for the USA and has the mind of a child that probably was destroyed by his drinking. GovExec.com reader Posted March 17, 2004 6:37 AM
