http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3386968/George-Bush-plans-to-push-through-agenda-in-last-days-in-office.htmlPresident George W Bush is planning to push through a series of potentially unpopular regulation changes in his final weeks in office.
Democrats fear the president will try to ram through new rules on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights before December 20, the deadline for changes before the new president is inaugurated a month later. The alterations could take months or years to undo.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey has already rushed out new guidelines for the FBI that make domestic surveillance easier, including the use of informants to infiltrate lawful groups and prolonged physical surveillance.
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Michael Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services, is believed to be planning to extend the right of doctors and nurses to refuse to participate in abortions to a wider range of health care workers. The right to refuse the provision of the birth control pill, emergency contraception and abortion referrals may also be added.
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He has also created a transition commission of senior national security and economic aides who will be giving their designated successors briefings or running them through exercises to simulate responses to natural disasters or terrorist attacks.
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