The George W. Bush administration accelerated development and deployment of a system proposed in 1998 by the Clinton administration.

However, Executive Order 12333, which prohibited the CIA from assassinations, was relaxed by the George W. Bush administration.

In 2005, Clinton criticized the Bush administration for its handling of emissions control, while speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal.

Theodore went on to successfully represent presidential candidate George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore, and subsequently served as U. S. Solicitor General in the Bush administration.

Several companies received expedited no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina and Iraq war reconstruction purportedly due to having cronies in the Bush administration.

Of the 227 major dams in the Columbia River drainage basin, the four Washington dams on the lower Snake River are often identified for removal, notably in an ongoing lawsuit concerning a Bush administration plan for salmon recovery.

The Bush administration is responsible for these abuses, not only because the contras are, for all practical purposes, a U. S. force, but also because the Bush administration has continued to minimize and deny these violations, and has refused to investigate them seriously.

In the 1980s, the Reagan administration pushed for vouchers, as did the George W. Bush administration in the initial education-reform proposals leading up to the No Child Left Behind Act.

During his tenure, Bush headed administration task forces on deregulation and fighting drug abuse.

The Bush administration will soon announce a climate policy that is expected to rely on the development of new technologies to reduce greenhouse emissions, a concept strongly supported by the GCC.

In a June 2002 column, Republican consultant and speechwriter Peggy Noonan expressed the hope that the Bush administration would change the name of the department, writing that, " The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably.

In November 2001, the Bush administration froze the assets of Al-Barakat, a Somali remittance hawala company used primarily by a large amount of Somalian immigrants.

Bremer's transitional government featured figures close to the George W. Bush administration, such as grain-trading industry lobbyist Dan Amstutz, who was put in charge of agricultural policy in Iraq.

If false, it may reflect a desire to silence one of the greatest embarrassments to the Bush administration.

Kemp was respected within the party for opposing Bush, and towards the end of Bush's administration insiders recognized his value.

In July 2003 Stauber and Sheldon Rampton wrote Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, which argued that the Bush administration deceived the American public into supporting the war.

Early into the administration, Bush made it known that she would focus much of her attention on education.

The report also found that " exposure to either newspaper was weakly linked to a movement away from the Bush administration and Republicans.

A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush ( alongside running-mate Dick Cheney ) and Al Gore ( alongside Joe Lieberman ), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.

In signing the law, Bush expressed concerns about the constitutionality of parts of the legislation but concluded, " I believe that this legislation, although far from perfect, will improve the current financing system for Federal campaigns … Taken as a whole, this bill improves the current system of financing for Federal campaigns, and therefore I have signed it into law.

Bush will be adjacent to the Greenhill School and will be located along Addison's trail system ; therefore the school will be accessible by bicycle or on foot from the Les Lacs and Midway Meadows subdivisions.

Most of the areas to the east of the barrier differ significantly in character, being associated with the more affluent Holland Park and Notting Hill ; although the Edward Woods Estate just to the northeast of the roundabout is part of and managed by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and is therefore more closely associated with Shepherds Bush.

He drew a distinction between erotic songs, i. e. those that dealt with love and suggested sexuality through innuendo ( like ' The Bonny Black Hare ' and ' The Bird in the Bush '), and pornographic songs that were explicit and therefore unworthy of attention.

President Bush therefore formed the Commission, but gave it a broad mandate not only to look into any errors behind the Iraq intelligence, but also to look into intelligence on WMD programs in Afghanistan and Libya, as well as to examine the capabilities of the Intelligence Community to address the problem of WMD proliferation and " related threats.

Bush and Michael Dukakis campaigns secretly agreed to a " memorandum of understanding " that would decide which candidates could participate in the debates, which individuals would be panelists ( and therefore able to ask questions ), and the height of the podiums.

Secondly, of the funding over the next five years that Bush has proposed, only US $ 1 billion will be in new appropriations while the remaining US $ 11 billion will be reallocated from NASA's other programs, and therefore inadequate to fully realize this vision.

In the 2004 election, the Bush campaign believed that the liberal 527 organizations such as MoveOn. org, The Media Fund and America Coming Together were coordinating their message with the Kerry for President campaign – thereby advocating the election of a federal candidate, and should therefore be held to the campaign finance limits of a political party or political action committee.

Bush administrations took the view that economic, social, and cultural rights were not really rights but merely desirable social goals and therefore should not be the object of binding treaties.

He became a member of the Skull and Bones society at Yale in 1927, as were his brother-in-law Prescott Sheldon Bush ( S & B 1917 ); brothers Dr. John Mercer Walker, Sr. ( S & B 1931 ) and Louis Walker ( S & B 1936 ); and his nephew, the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush ( S & B 1947 ); and Bush's son ( therefore George's grand-nephew ), the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush ( S & B 1968 )

Much suspense was built around the devastation that Hurricane Ivan had caused as the leader of Government business Mr. Mckeeva Bush decided to close the Islands to any and all reporters.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy earlier in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.

Following an independent investigation into the cause of the accident, President Bush decided to retire the Shuttle orbiter fleet by 2010 in favor of the Constellation program and its manned Orion spacecraft.

Only eight days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board,, and only three days earlier, had preliminarily halted the recount that was occurring in Florida.

" The White House staff was preparing for Bush to address the nation from the Offutt bunker, but Bush decided instead to return to Washington.

Whitman decided that President Bush should have an EPA administrator willing to defend the new rule in court, which she could not bring herself to do.

Under pressure from his Secretary of State, Colin Powell, and his main ally, the UK, President Bush decided to try to obtain UN backing for an invasion.

When Bush Sr. decided to vacate his Congressional seat and run for the U. S. Senate in 1969, he supported Baker's decision to run for the Congressional seat he was vacating.

O ' Neill's private feuds with Bush's tax cut policies and his push to further investigate alleged al-Qaeda funding from some American-allied countries, as well as his objection to the invasion of Iraq in the name of the war on terror — that he considered as nothing but a simple excuse for a war decided long before by neoconservative elements of the first Bush Administration — led to him being fired in 2002 and replaced with John W. Snow.

With the addition of another station bearing the name Shepherd's Bush, it was decided to rename the Shepherd's Bush station on the Hammersmith and City line ( the old 1914 Metropolitan line Shepherd's Bush station ) to Shepherd's Bush Market to avoid confusion with the Overground and Central line stations.

Similarly, in 1991, when Shi ' a across Iraq revolted against Hussein's regime ( partially in response to the televised rallying call to do so by U. S. President George H. W. Bush ), the U. S. justification for ultimately staying out of the revolt and allowing Hussein's security forces to suppress the rebels was that the U. S. had strategically decided Hussein's rule was better than the risk of a mujahideen-or Iranian Revolution-style takeover.

In 1978, Coverdell was vacationing in Maine and decided to look up former Chairman of the Republican National Committee George H. W. Bush.

A meeting that included Conant decided Groves should be answerable to a small committee called the Military Policy Committee, chaired by Bush, with Conant as his alternate.

Bugliosi condemned the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in the Bush v. Gore decision that decided the 2000 presidential election. Louis Posner of Voter March, with Vincent Bugliosi ( left ) at New York City Speaking TourHe wrote a lengthy criticism of the case for The Nation titled " None Dare Call It Treason ," which he later expanded into a book titled The Betrayal of America.

In that briefing on behalf of the White House, Clarke stated " there was no plan on Al-Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration ," and that after taking office President Bush decided to " add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, fivefold, to go after Al-Qaeda.

The administration of George W. Bush decided in 2003 to engage in research towards a new generation of small nuclear weapons, especially " earth penetrators ".

' Soon we shall have little or none " By the time Great Britain realized, its position had worsened, Bush decided that outside help for the Manhattan Project was no longer needed while the U. S. government increasingly convinced to the fact that prevented Great Britain from being able to build a postwar atomic weapon.

Vice President Bush was nominated without opposition during the roll call vote, but with rumblings of opposition to the Quayle nomination, it was decided to have it ratified by voice vote, something that the Republicans had never done before.

Mahon decided not to run again in 1978, when Reese lost the Republican runoff primary for the seat to George W. Bush, who was then defeated in the general election by Democrat Kent Hance, Mahon's House successor, who subsequently switched parties.