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...consequences of a divided government is gridlock. In 1948, President Harry Truman ran by campaigning against the "do nothing" Congress and prevailed. Given the Republican filibusters at the end of the 103rd Congress, Clinton could adopt a similar strategy and run against the "do nothing" 104th Congress...
Harvard administrators have called Kennedy a champion of higher education in general and of Harvard in particular. In the 103rd Congress alone, as chair of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, (CLHR) Kennedy--responsible for every non-budgetary domestic policy that gets to the Senate floor--engineered support for six major education reform bills...
...senior Senator who directs the committee that deals most with education, Kennedy succeeded in passing six major education reform bills through the 103rd Congress alone...
...weakness in Clinton's trade crusade. Effective as he is at negotiating tougher agreements, the President has had trouble holding together the legislative coalitions he needs to get them approved. Republicans have generally supported his effort because free trade has long been a G.O.P. first principle. But as the 103rd Congress ended last week with what White House chief of staff Leon Panetta called a "cry of anguish," most Republicans were willing to abandon years of doctrine in order to score some political points. And, as was the case on health-care and campaign-finance reform, the President...
...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...