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Four years later in 1993, Republicans swept all three positions and led the oracles to warn of rough waters ahead for the new Democratic President and his fellow Democrats. The failure of Clinton's health care plan in 1995 and the subsequent GOP conquest of Capitol Hill in the mid-term elections seemed to verify this trend. But, it was also predicted that the victories of the moderate Rudolph Giuliani and Christine Todd Whitman would spur a rush back to the center for the Republican Party after their 1992 losses under the conservative banner. (If the infamous House Republicans...
...easy for Clinton to lay on the red-carpet welcome, the 21-gun salute, the Oval Office pageantry in Washington. The problem is the rest of the country, where Jiang is sure to face protesters, hecklers and tough questions from pesky reporters. At a Capitol Hill breakfast, half the Congressmen attending will be critics of China. Political demonstrators are going to dog his every step. China's officials say Jiang is visiting such hallowed points as colonial Williamsburg, Revolutionary Boston and Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to show his "deep democratic impulse"; Clinton's aides say these stopovers lend themselves...
...YORK: He's done the hula in Hawaii, worn a three-corner hat in Williamsburg, and been guided around the Capitol by Newt Gingrich. But now the King of Communism has come to the Big Apple--and he's gone native...
...year reauthorization process is in its beginning stages, with proposals being bandied about by higher education consortiums, congressional representatives and the Department of Education (DOE). Drafting has begun in the Senate, and Capitol Hill observers anticipate that legislative action will begin in January...
...very strong advocate for the district and hammered [the President] on this thing, because she gets out in the community more than he does," says White House spokesman Mike McCurry. But when it came time to put forward a specific plan and launch a fight for it on Capitol Hill, the job fell to Budget Director Franklin Raines. Says Cisneros: "She's found a new way to get things done...