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Foreign policy is on no one's radar scope yet, except Richard Lugar's. Usually when matters abroad are discussed, Lugar's expertise commands bipartisan respect. But now that he's after the big prize, even Lugar has veered offtrack. When Saddam Hussein recently jailed two Americans for straying into Iraq-an action requiring deft diplomacy-Lugar waxed on about sending the Marines to rescue them...
Conservative Senators and Representatives reintroduced a proposal to protect the American flag from desecration. The measure enjoys broad bipartisan support but also strong opposition from some lawmakers who are concerned about tinkering with the right of free speech...
...more sedate Rose Garden ceremony this afternoon, President Clinton signed the "unfunded mandates" bill into law. The measure prevents Congress from imposing costly newrequirements on the stateswithout providing adequate funding. Addressing a bipartisan crowd of lawmakers and 125 state and local officials, the president said that the law "shows that Republicans and Democrats can come together andbreak gridlock." He added: "This bill is another acknowledgment that Washington doesn't necessarily have all the answers." The law -- which allows states and localities to ignore most federal regulations that cost them more than $50 million a year -- is the second part...
...machine. Workers paying taxes, even at what now look like phenomenally low rates, so heavily outnumbered retirees that Congress could raise benefits every few years, to the glee of pensioners and the ballot-box profit of their representatives. Even when the money began to run out in 1983, a bipartisan commission saved the day--for the next 75 years, it was then thought--by recommending rather minor cutbacks in benefits and very major increases in taxes, the last of which took effect only...
Lawmakers still regard talk of reforming the system as the supreme act of political recklessness. A detailed program was recommended last year by Senators Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, and John Danforth, a Missouri Republican (since retired), who were appointed by President Clinton to head a bipartisan commission on entitlement reform. Their plan called for raising the retirement age to 70, cutting the benefits of upper-income retirees, and recalculating the Consumer Price Index...