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...down, eight to go for the GOP "Contract With America." The House passed legislation requiring Congress to pay for regulations it imposes on states and local governments today, in a bipartisan 360-74 vote. The Senate approved its version of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, 86-10, last Friday. President Clinton has voiced support for the bill, and is expected to sign it into law. Today's vote puts a second check mark in Newt Gingrich's little book, next to last week's balanced budget amendment victory...
...support there. "I believe we are going to do the same thing in the Senate," Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.), a leading Democratic proponent, said today, but added: "It's by no means certain." Similar hedging came from House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who nonetheless crowed after Thursday's bipartisan vote: "This is a historic moment for our country." TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says the Senate GOP leadership will have to campaign hard to overcome an expected challenge from the body's most formidable Democratic obstructionist, West Virginia's Sen. Robert Byrd. "In the Senate, they have exactly 67 votes...
President Clinton, who hopes to jump-start hiswelfare reformeffort with a 5 1/2-hour bipartisan summit Saturday, today cautioned the GOP against trying to cut off benefits to people "without regard to what will happen to their children." But eager Republicans, especially House freshmen, warned in return that Clinton would have to jump to their tune. "I think the train is way down the track on welfare and that the president is jumping on the caboose. But I'm happy to have him on board," said Rep. Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.), who will attend the high-level meeting of Congress members...
...first time in 40 years, Republicans took control of both chambers of Congress. Pledging to strive for bipartisan cooperation, Newt Gingrich took up the Speaker's gavel and, as promised, immediately plunged the House into a marathon session devoted to enacting sweeping rule changes. Among the many provisions adopted (with Democratic support): committee staff reductions and the elimination of some committees and subcommittees; the opening of more committee meetings to the public and TV; and the imposition of limits on how long a member may serve as Speaker or committee chairman. The Representatives also voted to require a three-fifths...
...Senate confirmed Robert Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury today by a vote of 99-0 (Senator Jay Rockefeller was absent). Rubin, a former co-chairman of Wall Street's Goldman Sachs, has earned bipartisan respect for his performance as chairman of President Clinton's National Economic Council. He succeeds Lloyd Bentsen, a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who resigned the Treasury post last month to return to private business in Texas...