Campaign aides said they represented a markedly different approach than Mr. Bush has advocated.

A 15 percent tax, which Mr. Bush has advocated, would shower two-thirds of its benefits on people with incomes over $200,000.

Mr. Bush himself won the Republican nomination in 2000 by promising a far less activist foreign policy than the Clinton administration had advocated.

The "flexible freeze" Mr. Bush advocated as a candidate to solve the deficit problem seemed to be more a political tactic than a budget policy.

In 1988, when polls showed him trailing in the state just before the fall election, Mr. Bush advocated continuing those limits.

And now the Democratic leaders are busy pushing an alternative plan that lacks most of the pro-growth policies Mr. Bush has advocated.

Beyond the debate over the policy Mr. Bush is advocating, the timing raised concerns.

And Mr. Bush has advocated voluntary school prayer before high school football games.

Mr. Bush did not specifically advocate a new law.

Mr. Bush and his advisers have advocated expanding research beyond a ground-based system to include sea- and space-based systems.