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...spending in this bill comes straight out of the Social Security trust fund," and arch-conservative Phil Gramm moaned that GOPers "say we want to lock up the money from Social Security, and then we sit idly by and watch it be spent." But TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says that Clinton asked for the money for the troops, and there's no way he was going to be seen sending this check back. "He probably doesn't consider this version bad enough to take a chance," he says. "Most of the most objectionable parts were weeded...
...TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says he still could. "Most of the additions are fine by him, like the hurricane relief to Central America and the FEMA funds for Oklahoma," he says. But Washington senator Slade Gorton's gold-mine rider directly overturns an administration decision to block the mine, and Clinton still has the political capital on Kosovo to demand a leaner, cleaner bill. "It's a game of chicken, but the Republicans already look bad on Kosovo," Branegan says. "Clinton could probably score some points by accusing Congress of slowing down the bill with pork, and they...
...Whatever the merits of the measure," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "Republicans have handed the Democrats a great issue in the wake of Littleton." Though it?s no secret that both parties regularly cater to the special interest groups that back their elections, says Branegan, "Senator Larry Craig?s admission that the NRA had 'grudgingly' accepted the latest Republican gun-show measure was an amazing statement." It opens him up, and the Republican party as well, to questions as to whom they are working for. The Democrats intend to keep this matter alive as long as they...
...Senate Republican leaders finally realized they had handed the Democrats a choice issue," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "They opted to play their base but they misread the current public mood." Ever since the Littleton massacre, the NRA and its allies in Congress have known that more gun control legislation was headed their way. The issue was how to deflect the effort without looking insensitive. "Republicans thought they could get some cover with their voluntary proposal," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "but it didn?t work." A big question now, says Dickerson, "is whether they will have...
...details, his appearance on the Hill gave the Clinton administration another bad China day. "Coming on the heels of the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, continuing allegations of Chinese nuclear spying and the recent failure of trade talks with China," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "Chung?s appearance conjured up yet again an image of complete mess-up by this administration on questions pertaining to China...