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Old congressional hands may regard Raines' style as a bit naive, but in some ways it represents how the second Clinton Administration is rearranging its priorities. "He gets it," says Vice President Al Gore, a longtime friend, who recruited Raines for the job. "In a relatively short time as OMB...
More basic have been strategic questions such as how far to move toward the G.O.P.'s higher Medicare cuts and how much to slash discretionary spending in the later years of the five-year budget. Seasoned congressional hands, such as the departing Panetta and legislative-affairs director John Hilley, had...
Hoping to calm them, White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles early last week called and apologized to both Gephardt and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle for failing to consult them on either the Medicare plan or the President's choice of Colorado Governor Roy Romer as the new party...
Representative David McIntosh, the Indiana Republican who heads a congressional probe into WhoDB, said the use of a taxpayer-funded database--whose cost was estimated by the Administration to run as high as $1.7 million--raises ethical questions about the extent to which the White House was used as a...
The preliminaries have already begun. In meetings with incoming White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, House minority leader Richard Gephardt--Al Gore's likeliest rival for the 2000 nomination--has warned the Administration not to go beyond the 1995 Democratic proposal of $124 billion in Medicare cuts. To distinguish...