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The Last Word: Yikes! When George Bush was elected president of the United States in 2000, it was due to the electoral college, even though his opponent, Al Gore, won the national popular vote. Hillary Clinton was elected senator that year, and she announced that the first thin...

…ote: These materials should not be construed as providing legal, tax, or accounting advice. On June 7, 2001, President Bush signed into law the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act ("EGTRRA") which significantly changed estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer...

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…ndent Children and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, declined relative to market income. (20) For example, the Bush Administration tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 reduced the income tax rate, capital gains tax rate, and dividend tax rate. Earlier, the tax cuts under President...

…e police chief, at odds with the District Attorney’s office, recruits the involvement of the FBI. This is of course the Bush-era FBI and Epstein presents quite the Clinton-connected scandal. Still, solicitation, even of a minor, is not a federal crime. The FBI hits on the novel i...

… Both American political parties are indicted; “Inside Job” is not simply another belated settling of accounts with Mr. Bush and his advisers, though they are hardly ignored. The scaling back of government oversight and the weakening of checks on speculative activity by banks beg...

…fter Rush Limbaugh’s high profile Palm Beach drug bust, the Clinton connection and then with the sudden interest of the Bush FBI in the case, moved the case from solicitation to scandal, and a plea deal with a sentence of 18 months. He got out of jail in 2009, serving 13 mon...

…ew from the Inspector General report he had read, the NSA had terminated Stellarwind almost a decade earlier. President Bush ended it after top officials of the Justice © Department insisted that he did not have the legal authority for the © domestic part of Stellarwind. Instead,...

… Ronald Reagan began the tradition of new U.S. presidents making Canada the first foreign presidential visit. George W. Bush notably broke from this tradition, making his first stop Mexico, a country he knew well. He also hoped his trip and Cinco de Mayo parties on the White Hous...

…sed solely a solicitation charge. But Epstein’s flamboyance and his friendship with Clinton invited the scrutiny of the Bush FBI, and ultimately Epstein and his legal team decided to go for a plea deal. The result was a baroque set of agreements with both the Feds and Palm Beach...

…nst it. There is some precedence on what we could expect President Elect Trump to do with the fiduciary rule. President Bush had implemented an investment advice regulation that President Obama delayed several times until it was finally withdrawn. The view from the panel was that...

…ail Mary pass will increase the federal budget (which has already expanded by $1.5 trillion in eight years under George Bush) by an additional $1 trillion -- in roughly his first 100 days in office. The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompe...

…ast year from the US Air Force). Dick was Chief of the White House Medical Unit and physician to Presidents Clinton and Bush. • USAID Also last week we successfully demonstrated our device for USAID and the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI). Follow up is being arranged. Accomp...

the congresswoman pushed President George W. Bush to issue the very first veto of his presidency when she teamed up with then-Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) to pass the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act through a GOP-controlled Congress.

then faced the greater ordeal of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the long occupation that followed. Had the United States been successful in Iraq