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For the fifth year in a row, money for enforcing the nation's environmental laws and protecting wildlife and wild places would be cut dramatically under President Bush's proposed 2006 budget….Alaska, under the leadership of Gov. Murkowski, is proceeding with plans to kill 50% of the grizzly bears along the Canadian border in an effort to boost moose populations to attract hunters to Alaska. Biologists say killing the grizzlies would have no impact on moose and could severely hinder the bear population..."A White House spokesman downplayed President Bush's relationship with embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, "calling them working friends, not close friends as he had said recently," the Chicago Tribune reports...Maria Shriver "is conferring with consultants to refine the governor's message and working to ensure that her husband hears a broader range of voices" (Los Angeles Times)….MO Aud Claire McCaskill (D) "may be reconsidering plans to run for re-election next year and instead challenge" Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)…. The CA state Senate voted 25-6 to "bar state hunters from remotely killing animals using a computer and an Internet connec-tion" (AP). ..."I can't say it wasn't" -- Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), asked if the Clinton impeachment proceedings "were payback for Nixon's impeachment" (ABC 7 online). ..."Joking" about the possibility of a WH run, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) said: "A president from Indiana. It kind of has a little resonance to it" (Indianapolis Star-News)….Ex-Sen. Rod Grams (R) "gave up" his MN SEN bid (Minneapolis Star Tribune)….44-year-old ex-KY SEN nominee Daniel Mongiardo (D), who was the target of GOP "insinuations that he might be gay," is now "dating a 19-year-old woman" (Lexington Herald-Leader). ...The cmte giving money on MA Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) behalf to GOPers in IA raised nearly $91K last year (Boston Herald)….The PPIC Statewide
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