The following news summaries are from OPM AM, the daily newsletter of the Office of Personnel Management. OPM AM is available on OPM Mainstreet, the agency's electronic bulletin board, at 202-606-4800.
DAILY BRIEFINGS
News Briefs
DIXIE REPUBLICANS CHOOSE BUSH-"Gov. George W. Bush of Texas won the presidential straw ballot of more than 1,000 Southern Republicans this weekend, taking 18 percent, while his nearest rival, publisher Steve Forbes, a yankee who has never held elective office, took 15 percent" (The Washington Times).
MANY URGE INVESTING SOCIAL SECURITY IN STOCKS-"As the United States begins debating how to shore up Social Security for the aging baby-boom generation, advocates of fundamentally changing the system are honing their argument to a single theme -- that as an investment, Social Security is a bad deal" (The New York Times).
SENATE SET TO DEBATE HUGE PUBLIC WORKS BILL-"In the first major test of whether Congress will abide by the self-imposed austerity of last year's budget agreement, the Senate is taking up one of the biggest public works bills in the nation's history, a multi-year plan laden with big-ticket highway and transit projects that are dear to every lawmaker's heart" (The New York Times).
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