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...list of new initiatives, from a modest tax break to big spending initiatives in health care and education, and pressed his Republican opponents on gun control and on a patients' bill of rights. "This is an ambitious agenda for a lame-duck presidency," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "But then his popularity is very high compared with, say, Ronald Reagan's at the end of his term. Most of these things, though, are simply extensions of programs Clinton has proposed for years, and it remains to be seen whether there's that much left to spend when...
...things are going to make it easier for him to pass this through this year," says TIME political correspondent Jay Branegan. "It involves a tax cut, which Republicans like, and it involves the elderly, which Democrats like." The timing should also help. Right when the President is starting to unleash one billion-dollar proposal after another, Republicans have opened up to his ideas. "There's been an incredible shift among House Republicans to vote for Clinton's proposals in recent weeks," notes Branegan. "They're now voting for a tax cut the size Clinton proposed and they've proposed paying...
...just be that everyone wants to look good come Election Day. Clinton's writing his epitaph, while those in Congress are trying to write their meal tickets. "On a lot of these issues Republicans are facing a choice between special interest groups and their constituents," notes Branegan. "In an election year, they're usually going to side with the constituents." And of course, there's Al Gore. While the vice president has been forced to battle Bill Bradley on the left side of the party, where he's not comfortable, Clinton's introduced a handful of centrist proposals that Gore...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney and Mark Thompson/Washington and Andrew Meier and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...right to negotiate "fast-track" trade agreements. He's increasingly faced opposition on both sides of the aisle to free trade policies, which have left him vulnerable to populist attack. "Pat Buchanan complains that both parties are now too pro-business, and that resonates with some people," says Branegan. Because as Seattle showed, there are many thousands of Americans who are far from convinced that what's good for business is good for them...