For the Record.(Brief Article)(Column)

Heritage Foundation president Edwin J. Feulner on Bush administration, in New York Times: "More Reaganite than the Reagan administration." . . . Paul Weyrich of Free Congress Foundation: "I've been through five Republican administrations, and the effort to communicate with conservatives and to understand our concerns and address our concerns and involve us in the process is the best of any of the Republican administrations." . . . President Bush withdraws 62 executive and judicial nominations made in last days of Clinton administration, but doesn't rule out renominating some of them himself. . . . Bush stops using e-mail before inauguration: "My lawyers tell me that all correspondence by e-mail is subject to open record requests," he writes in Jan. 17 missive to confidants, reports New York Times. "Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace. This saddens me." . . . "Are you with the Chinese press? Your English is perfect," says Bush to reporter. "You speak better English than I do." . . . "Those stories about my intellectual capacity do get under my skin. You know for a while I even thought my staff believed it," says Bush at Gridiron Club dinner. "There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence briefing.'" . . . Bush selects Gore- campaign donor Thomas A. Scully to head Health Care Financing Administration.

Newsweek poll: 55 percent approve of Bush tax-cut plan, and 36 percent disapprove. . . . Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.): "After 60 days of the Bush administration, prosperity is in trouble, air quality is in trouble, lakes, rivers, and forests are in trouble, and our drinking water is in trouble, too." . . . Sen. Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.): "The new administration is not just attempting to reverse the last eight years of progress and prosperity, they want to reverse the last 50 or 60 years. . . . It's not just trying to turn back the clock on the Clinton administration; they want to turn the clock back on the Roosevelt administration." . . . Sen. Clinton assumes most expensive home-state office rent of any senator, at $514,149 per year. Rent for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), also in Manhattan, is $209,532. . . . In annual Pig Book, Citizens Against Government Waste identifies unnecessary spending, including $190,000 to determine why people are moving away from Great Plains states, $300,000 for "manure management," and $700,000 for the University of Idaho's Institute for the Historic Study of Jazz. . . . Pork-per-capita leader is Alaska ($766.11), followed by Hawaii ($391.71), Mississippi ($236.49), West Virginia ($128.47), and Vermont ($114.10). In last ...