Word: bipartisanism
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...children -- we cannot erase its horrors. But because the parties have said they will turn from war to peace, we can now prevent further suffering." Carney notes that Clinton, who got a boost today when President Bush urged Congress to back his plan, will try to muster a large bipartisan group to make similar public statements. Wednesday's lineup, he says: former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and former Secretary of State Al Haig...
Does he really mean it? After promising a New Hampshire voter five months ago that he would help form a panel on campaign finance reform, House Speaker Newt Gingrich has finally asked President Clinton to collaborate on a 16-member, bipartisan commission to address the issue. "Gingrich has no choice but to be serious," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "Not only is it a top priority of the powerful Republican freshman class, it's become a hot campaign issue." Among the early Gingrich proposals: that PACs be limited to $1,000 contributions while raising the individual giving ceiling...
...Texas audience that "1 million men are right to be standing up for personal responsibility, but 1 million men do not make right one man's message of malice and division." Clinton condemned both white and black racism and urged the races to come together. To that end, a bipartisan, bi-racial group of congressional representatives asked the President to set up a national commission on race relations. For his part, Farrakhan said he expects to become a major political force and that he would help spearhead a new black voter-registration drive...
...change? Democrats are looking at opinion polls that consistently show bipartisan majorities in favor of strong protections for the environment. In a recent TIME/CNN poll, 63% of those questioned opposed any reduction in protection for endangered species. Fifty-nine percent opposed the expansion of logging, mining or ranching on public lands. And 67% were against opening up the Arctic refuge to gas and oil exploration. One of the President's pollsters, Stan Greenberg, is advising Clinton that defense of the environment plays well with many Perot supporters, who are inclined to see any attack on environmental law as one more...
...York Democrat raced to the telephone and called Joseph Stiglitz, head of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. "Get the President to call Bob Dole--fast!" he urged. Moynihan, who was shopping around a dramatic proposal, had just witnessed a rare moment in Washington--the possibility of bipartisan, let's-jump-off-together risk taking. Senate majority leader Dole had mumbled something positive about the idea; if the White House, too, gave it a nod, the seemingly intractable deadlock over how best to balance the federal budget could be broken; sharp cuts in Medicare and Medicaid would be avoided...