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House Republicans held a campaign-style rally to celebrate the halfway mark of their 100-day "Contract With America" legislative blitz. Meanwhile, President Clinton and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt met with reporters to underscore concerns about the potential impact of GOP legislation on poor children. Gephardt said that GOP reform plans would gut the federal school lunch program. At the GOP rally, Speaker Newt Gingrich warned beaming supporters that the going is getting tougher: the remaining "Contract" provisions, which include welfare reform, term limits, tax relief, eliminating affirmative action laws and reforming the legal system, will spark heated congressional...
House Republicans held a campaign-style rally to celebrate the halfway mark of their 100-day "Contract With America" legislative blitz. Meanwhile, President Clinton and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt met with reporters to underscore concerns about the potential impact of GOP legislation on poor children. Gephardt said that GOP reform plans would gut the federal school lunch program. At the GOP rally, Speaker Newt Gingrich warned beaming supporters that the going is getting tougher: the remaining "Contract" provisions, which include welfare reform, term limits, tax relief, eliminating affirmative action laws and reforming the legal system, will spark heated congressional...
Organizers credited much of the conference'ssuccess to the blitz of publicity. "We posteredeverywhere. And the whole thing was on e-mail--thebrochure, the mailing list, everything" saidCheng...
They knew how to do it too. Last September, when Gingrich announced the Contract with America, the Republican National Committee had lined up 300 talk-radio interviews for its signatories. Coordinating the blitz was Virginia's Contract Information Center, which has 500 radio talk shows on its superefficient fax network. CIC sent pro-Contract clips and talking points to the shows; many hosts read the material verbatim on the air. The scheme worked handsomely; the Rush Republicans went to the polls. Limbaugh's clout is immense; former Congressman Vin Weber says Rush is as responsible as anyone else...
Given Hartford's second-half blitz, it is safe to say that Harvard didn't have much of a chance, especially when the Hawks held a 16-4 edge on foul shots...