Word: 103rd
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...103rd Congress slouches toward its scheduled adjournment this Friday, Clinton and his Democrats look unable to win passage for any of their remaining legislative priorities. Most urgent among the stalled bills: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, which would create thousands of new U.S. jobs and enjoys majority support. But it is held hostage by a single Democrat: Senate Commerce Committee chairman Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, who is battling to shelter his state's powerful textile interests from the global competition that other U.S. industries and workers are facing -- and winning. Senate leaders vowed to press...
...CHANCE TO BE HEARD Consumed by debates over health-care reform and the crime bill, legislators have left four other major issues to languish. With votes on these expected before the 103rd Congress adjourns this fall, there is still time to influence the outcome. Time invites you to use the attached postcard to express your views...
...Brady gun-control bill still put a fitting capstone on an unusually solid record of congressional accomplishment. For seven years, its passage had been blocked, as pro- and anti-gun-control forces angrily debated, drafted and redrafted its language. That it finally got through signaled that the 103rd Congress was serious about breaking gridlock in its own ranks and with the White House...
...record of the 103rd is still striking, not only by comparison with past Congresses but also with its own performance early on. Part of the reason is simply that for the first time in a dozen years, the same party controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. No longer did legislators design measures, like an early version of campaign-finance reform, to provoke a President into casting politically embarrassing vetoes. Paradoxically, though, campaign reform is being delayed by the absence of any veto threat; Congress is moving cautiously because it knows that almost anything it passes will become...
This latest tussle was easily the most significant legislative debate so far in the 103rd Congress. At stake was the President's proposal, which Congress has approved in broad outline, to slice the deficit $496 billion with a blend of spending cuts and tax hikes. But as the revolt on Capitol Hill gained momentum, several alternative plans were put forth, both formally and informally, that had at least three things in common: they sought to minimize the tax bite, maximize budget cuts and reflect the mood of the voters, of which Congress is the all-time champion bellwether...