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...Academia in the 104th Congress has lost much of its traditional influence and that is to be expected from the Change in the House leadership," said John Keast, chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss), the president of the first-term Republican caucus...
Thus armed, Clinton will run for re-election against the Republican Congress, Truman style. Truman ran against the "do-nothing" 80th Congress. Clinton will run against the "mean-spirited" 104th. His promise-to preserve the basic structure and existing subsidies of the welfare state-is a pure strain of what political analyst Kevin Phillips once termed reactionary liberalism...
Indeed, before the G.O.P. House members start imagining how history will treat their sprint through the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, they had better get some rest. For it will be the next 100 days and the 100 after those that will determine the real measure of their success at turning America toward a new course. "We are going to get to a balanced budget in seven years," Gingrich told TIME last week. "It will be so large, so comprehensive and so daring that I don't think anybody is going to say this is business as usual...
...cardinals. At one edge is San Francisco's J. Paul Emerson, a mammoth fist-pounder who doesn't mind saying he hates "the Japs." Toward the middle is syndicated host Michael Reagan, son of the former President; he and Limbaugh are the only persons made honorary members of the 104th Congress. Perhaps Reagan's most rebellious moment was when, he says, "I took on Nancy," by opposing his stepmother and supporting Oliver North for a Senate seat...
...contrast with the members of the ancien regime was startling. The Republicans of the 104th Congress are largely white, male and strikingly young. The white males among the devastated Democratic ranks are older and tired looking. As Gingrich prepared to give his surprisingly conciliatory opening address, several vanquished Democratic committee chairmen -- among them former Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton of Indiana -- paced the back aisles, pale ghosts of caucuses past. One chose to look at the bright side. As chairman, he said, "you're dealing with a bunch of little rug rats whining about what they want and what they...