WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US President George W Bush battled to score legislative victories in couple major domestic issues -- health care for the somewhat advanced in life and energy policy -- hoping to supporting cushion his odds of reclaiming the White House nearest year.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” US President George W Bush battled to score legislative victories in couple major domestic issues -- health care for the somewhat advanced in life and energy policy -- hoping to supporting cushion his odds of reclaiming the White House nearest year.

With the 2004 presidential elections les than the same year away and the greater part of his administration overshadowed by the agency of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush was eager to shore up his domestic policy credentials according to getting energy and Medicare reform in consequence of Congress before the end of the year.

"Modernizing Medicare will make the combination of parts to form a whole better and will enable us to say to millions of seniors, we've kept our promise to America's seniors," Bush said in a statement after the suffrage

But lawmakers in the US Senate have wrangled bitterly athwart both hotly-debated bills, with outraged opposition Democrats voicing objections not sole to their content, but the manner in which the