Bush Steps Up Hill Lobbying

Focus Is on Domestic Agenda

• By Erin P. Billings
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 15, 2007, Midnight

Even as Congress debates President Bush’s controversial proposal to increase U.S. troops in Iraq, the White House has been quietly negotiating with key lawmakers to try to advance some of its leading domestic priorities with the hope of rounding out a legacy now defined by an unpopular war.