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Cabot House. Soprano Ellen Archer andPianist Michael Strauss perform cabaret songs byWeill, Gershwin, Piaf, Coward and Porter. CabotHouse Living Room...
...away from this idea of economic class warfare that gets thrown into this discussion over and over again by the Democrats," said Republican Representative Bill Archer, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, on pbs's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour the other day. "I'm really sad that they continue to go back trying to divide America...
...farm subsidies. To achieve a similar end, some of the most powerful committees have had their authority reduced. Still, Gingrich didn't pare back all of the sprawl. Ways and Means, for instance, is a magnet for campaign contributions because it controls the tax code. Chairman Bill Archer was willing to make do with 29 members, but demand for seats was so high that Gingrich made...
...introduced their own proposal only to reveal wide splits among the 32 committee members. Those members range from Richard Trumka, president of the United Mine Workers, who criticized the Kerrey-Danforth proposal for relying too heavily on cutting benefits and not enough on tightening tax subsidies, to Representative Bill Archer, the Texas Republican who next month will assume the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and is a staunch defender of corporate tax breaks. Both Kerrey and Danforth told TIME they are skeptical they can marshal the requisite 20 votes necessary to forward a formal report to the President...
...committee chairmen to three consecutive terms and eliminate all $5 million in funds for 28 legislative support groups, such as the Congressional Black Caucus. Howls of protests from Democrats were immediately unleashed. House Republicans also approved incoming Speaker Newt Gingrich's choices for House committee chairman, including Reps. Bill Archer of Texas at the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee; Bob Livingston of Louisiana at Appropriations; John Kasich of Ohio at the Budget Committee and Henry Hyde of Illinois at the Judiciary Committee. (No chairman was chosen for the ethics committee, which is reviewing conflict-of-interest accusations against Gingrich...