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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American public has any chance to understand [it]." After storming out of a meeting with Republicans, Gibbons got into a scuffle with Republican Bill Thomas of California. On Friday, as the Ways and Means Committee met indoors, Democrats staged their own forlorn hearings in the rain outside the Capitol...
...unveiled a similar plan. But the G.O.P.'s decision to hold short and swift hearings on the $182 billion cost-savings plan--as well as on the even more controversial G.O.P. Medicare overhaul--prompted a full-scale rebellion by Democrats, who held alternative "hearings" on the lawn of the Capitol. The party leadership vowed to use every stalling tactic at its disposal to prevent the plans from being rammed through...
...Bill Clinton met with Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and the rest of the congressional leadership last week, the mood was cordial, the atmosphere so thick with promises to work together you could almost forget that not long ago the G.O.P. revolutionaries were ready to set up guillotines on the Capitol Mall. The impulse to cooperate was not entirely contrived, as Senate Republicans and Democrats proved last week when they made real progress toward a final version of welfare reform. Clinton even praised the Senate in his Saturday radio address for "wisdom and courage" in crafting the bill that he said...
...come down on those issues. But I haven't declared myself a candidate. I will have to learn, but it doesn't mean I have to rush through it right now and leap down an elevator shaft. What you're asking me to do is put myself up on Capitol Hill and say exactly whether I'm for the Clinton version of welfare reform or the Bob Dole version of welfare reform. I don't know enough...
...entrenched warlords, the country is "moving toward all-out war," reports Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis. Sunday, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, the warlord whose fighters had attacked U.N. peacekeepers during their failed operation to feed starving Somalis, assaulted Baidoa, a city of 300,000 people northwest of the capitol of Mogadishu. At least 10 people were reportedly killed, and Aidid is now holding 20 foreign aid workers against their will. Baidoa is controlled by a rival warlord, Ali Mahdi Mohamed. "It could just have been a looting run by Aidid in order to re-establish his leadership and get some...