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In Fox News poll, President Bush scores 68 percent approval rating. . . . Bush in Prague: “Saddam Hussein has been given a very short time to declare completely and truthfully his arsenal of terror. Should he again deny that this arsenal exists, he will have entered his final stage with a lie. And deception this time will not be tolerated. Delay and defiance will invite the severest of consequences.” … In CNN/USA Today poll, 58 percent support invasion of Iraq to remove Hussein from power, and 37 percent oppose. . . . Homeland security secretary-designate Tom Ridge: “We are far safer than we were on Sept. 11.”… Sen. Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.) on job Ridge will face, in New York Times: “It’s like asking Noah to build the ark after the rain has started to fall.” … In New York Times/CBS News poll, 62 percent say U.S. will not have won war in Afghanistan until Osama bin Laden is captured or killed. . . . Bush picks former federal prosecutor Michael Garcia to head Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Sen. Bill Frist (R., Tenn.) promises to offer comprehensive Medicarereform plan in January. . . . Rep. Tom Tancredo (R., Colo.), who says he will ditch term-limit pledge and run again for Congress, may face 2004 primary challenge from state treasurer Mike Coffman. . . . Retiring congressmen Dick Armey (R., Tex.) and Bob Barr (R., Ga.) agree to become consultants for ACLU on privacy and nationalsecurity issues…. As former Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D., Ill.) mulls comeback bid, Rep. Ray LaHood (R., Ill.) says Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R., Ill.) should have primary opponent. “I think we can do better than him,” says LaHood, in Chicago Sun-Times. . . . Thurmond family friend Bettis Rains-ford, in New York Times: “We have a saying down here in South Carolina: There are a lot of politicians in their graves waiting on Senator Thurmond to die.”

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In Fox News poll, President Bush scores 68 percent approval rating. . . . Bush in Prague: “Saddam Hussein has been given a very short time to declare completely and truthfully his arsenal of terror. Should he again deny that this arsenal exists, he will have entered his final stage with a lie. And deception this time will not be tolerated. Delay and defiance will invite the severest of consequences.” … In CNN/USA Today poll, 58 percent support invasion of Iraq to remove Hussein from power, and 37 percent oppose. . . . Homeland security secretary-designate Tom Ridge: “We are far safer than we were on Sept. 11.”… Sen. Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.) on job Ridge will face, in New York Times: “It’s like asking Noah to build the ark after the rain has started to fall.” … In New York Times/CBS News poll, 62 percent say U.S. will not have won war in Afghanistan until Osama bin Laden is captured or killed. . . . Bush picks former federal prosecutor Michael Garcia to head Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Sen. Bill Frist (R., Tenn.) promises to offer comprehensive Medicarereform plan in January. . . . Rep. Tom Tancredo (R., Colo.), who says he will ditch term-limit pledge and run again for Congress, may face 2004 primary challenge from state treasurer Mike Coffman. . . . Retiring congressmen Dick Armey (R., Tex.) and Bob Barr (R., Ga.) agree to become consultants for ACLU on privacy and nationalsecurity issues…. As former Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D., Ill.) mulls comeback bid, Rep. Ray LaHood (R., Ill.) says Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R., Ill.) should have primary opponent. “I think we can do better than him,” says LaHood, in Chicago Sun-Times. . . . Thurmond family friend Bettis Rains-ford, in New York Times: “We have a saying down here in South Carolina: There are a lot of politicians in their graves waiting on Senator Thurmond to die.”