"I would be pleased to endorse you, if that would help in any way," the Republican former President wrote.

Democrats also denounced the way Republicans wrote the final bill and then presented it to them as a take-it-or-leave-it proposal.

Last week, seven former Republican and Democratic chairmen of the agency wrote a letter to the commission urging the adoption of the rule.

A1 The budget deficit negotiations are not working out according to the script that Democratic leaders and some Republicans in Congress might have written.

Both the Republican and Democratic parties have endorsed the campaign and written to the networks in protest.

Republicans wrote a rejection of the treaty into this year's campaign platform, calling the pact a threat to national security.

All those items are sure to wind up in the Democratic platform and are unlikely to be in the one the Republicans write this summer.

But he offered to help the Republicans write their proposal to increase Medicare premiums.

At a minimum, they said, the Republicans could have written a law anticipating such a lawsuit and requiring that they be served legal papers.

Leading Republicans in Congress wrote letters and made calls.