Word: budgets
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...battles of 1993, he insisted on debating Ross Perot against the wishes of White House staff--and outsimplified the Texan at his own game. Together with Morris, Bold Al helped turn around the rudderless Clinton presidency after the midterm-election debacle of 1994, urging Clinton to embrace the balanced budget in June 1995 when most other White House advisers were against it; arguing in August 1995 that it was high time to bomb the Bosnian Serbs into submission; and counseling Clinton during the winter's titanic showdown with the g.o.p. not to compromise but to let the Republicans shutter...
White House sources have been whispering that the President and First Lady are concerned that Gore, forced to protect his left flank from a populist attack by House minority leader Dick Gephardt in the 2000 primaries, will not stand up for New Democratic achievements--the balanced budget, welfare reform, economic growth--that the Clintons see as their legacy. This seems unfair, since Gore consistently argued in favor of those positions inside the White House--sometimes before the Clintons were aboard. Clinton has fretted about Gore's ability to hold firm--not because he questions Gore's beliefs but because...
...Amendment rights, leaving the whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced with the title of "Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children." Was there no budget for a clever acronym...
Apparently, strong public opinion against federal regulation of health plans has left Margaret Carlson dazed and confused [WASHINGTON DIARY, Nov. 24]. Health insurers actually support consumer protection and favor reforms. Carlson ignores legislative proposals that would raise premiums anywhere from 7% to 39%. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a 1% hike in health-insurance costs would cause around 200,000 people to lose their coverage. Four out of five respondents to a recent survey rejected federal regulation of managed-care plans. Perhaps they, unlike Carlson, are aware that more federal regulation means more uninsured. MICHAEL P. FORTIER Vice President...
...Clinton's calculated caution will disappoint Republicans, for whom Kyoto has already become the first real battleground of the 2000 election (not to mention the '98 budget and midterms). For the first time since Fred Thompson's hearings disbanded, the GOP smells blood ? and its best chance to sink some teeth into the Vice President...