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...order to avoid a tough confirmation battle, President Clinton is unlikely to appoint a new candidate for Surgeon General this year. Discounting the importance of the unfilled post, Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry says Clinton is happy with the work of Deputy Surgeon General Audrey Manley...
...array of conservatives, including antiabortionists, gun owners, antipornography crusaders, tax protesters, working women, stay-at-home moms, even some fathers'-rights activists. At every stop, Gramm emphasizes his zeal to balance the budget, cut taxes on families, end welfare benefits to people with children born out of wedlock and appoint judges who "will interpret not reinvent the Constitution." His flat-tax proposal, which retains the charitable-contribution deduction, is carefully designed to attract check-writing churchgoers, and it's a message he drives home with ads on 12 Christian stations across the state...
...deductions should be preserved. Instead, the plan's centerpiece is "The Tax Test:" twelve principles to guide the creation of a fairer, flatter and simpler tax code. Gingrich told reporters the proposal constitutes the beginning of "a very, very bold and very different new debate." Kemp challenged Clinton to appoint a bipartisan, blue ribbon commission to draft the sepcifics. But while well-intentioned, Kemp's commission is rooted in politics, notes TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "The flat tax is the hottest new issue on the campaign trail and has launched Steve Forbes into second place," he says. Since Jack Kemp...
What mattered, however, was the committee's decision to appoint an outside counsel to investigate whether Gingrich improperly used tax-deductible donations to fund the videotaped college course Renewing American Civilization, that he taught until earlier this year. The crowd at the Wednesday fund raiser applauded loudly when Gingrich told them the six charges had finally been resolved. As for the seventh, he said, it was a "technical'' matter. That line was echoed the next day by other members of the G.O.P. leadership. House Republican Conference chairman John Boehner of Ohio faxed around a 1994 letter by a former...
...Gingrich, the potentially more damaging process would be a wide-ranging probe by an independent counsel, which Democrats have urged the Ethics Committee to appoint. The Democrats turned up the pressure last week, citing the fact that four of the five Republicans on the Ethics Committee have ties to GOPAC. Last week the committee's chairman, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, acknowledged that she had participated in at least two GOPAC events, and had talked with individual GOPAC-recruited candidates on at least two other occasions. But Johnson insisted that her past involvement should not disqualify her from heading the committee...