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...next few weeks brought legislative havoc. The vote for a balanced-budget amendment failed. The first revenue vote was a tax hike in airline tickets. Funding for international family planning, seen as a pro-abortion vote, passed. And all the while, Gingrich and his lieutenants Tom DeLay and John Boehner had quietly begun floating the idea of separating tax cuts from balancing the budget. The idea was to strip the Democrats of their demagoguery: to avoid the charge, so effective in the last election, that Republicans just wanted to gut Medicare in order to cut taxes for rich people...
Clinton's best hope for pushing through legislation is to build a center-right coalition of Democrats and Republicans, though the move risks splitting open his party and giving Gephardt valuable ammunition for a primary run against Gore. House Republican Conference chairman John Boehner foresees multiple coalitions, with swing votes coming from different members on each issue: the balanced budget, a tax cut and stopgap Medicare reform. "The agenda they're talking about is the agenda we're talking about," he says. "It's likely it will become law." Clinton and Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, have been talking...
...said. He agreed not to launch a G.O.P. spin campaign to refute the charges. But then he appeared at least to bend that promise in a conference call with G.O.P. leaders, when he strategized about the content and timing of the statements they would put out. Congressman John Boehner joined in by cell phone from Florida; a scanner picked up the chat, and it was recorded by a local couple. On Friday excerpts appeared in the New York Times--leaked, said the Times, by a Democratic Congressman who got it from the couple...
...question is whether voters should believe the records or the new, austere rhetoric of the would-be chairmen. "They are trying to find a way to win the election, and then they will move back and do their agenda," warns Ohio's John Boehner. Even now, some are chafing, making it clear that they see Gephardt's Families First outline as a starting point, not a goal. "Gephardt never has and never would tell me what to do in my committee," Michigan's John Conyers, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told the Wall Street Journal last month...
...Gingrich groused to a colleague. Gingrich will focus instead on re-electing his majority, staging eight seminars on how lawmakers should market their agenda. (Example: Don't say "cut" Medicare, say "preserve and protect.") A Gingrich spokesman denies that the Speaker and Dole have gone separate ways. But John Boehner, the fourth-ranking House Republican, says, "There's been a realization on Newt's part that the Dole campaign is going to manage itself...