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...first 100 days. Gingrich was already worrying about maintaining momentum. So he invited small groups of CEOS--including Jack Welch of General Electric, Jack Smith from General Motors and the Business Roundtable chairman John Snow of CSX--to dinner in a first-floor dining room in the Capitol. The executives had all presided over major downsizing in their companies, and all drew the same lesson when the bloodbath was over: they wished they had done more...
...some Republican Governors, believes the G.O.P.'s Medicaid proposals pose real risks to the most vulnerable Americans. By affirming that some sensible Medicaid savings could be achieved, but no more than that, the Administration may have marked a decisive turning point in the fiscal debate that will dominate the Capitol at least through Christmas. To many Americans, the battles over Medicare and Medicaid quickly dissolve into a confusing blur of federal health programs whose names sound virtually identical. But Medicaid demands special attention. Going too far for the sake of savings could worsen many of the problems that already afflict...
...G.O.P. agenda--weakening environmental laws or workplace safety regulations, for instance, or making it harder to take manufacturers to court--corporate money probably would have found its way to their side even if the Republicans had done nothing more than leave a night-deposit box on the Capitol steps. But under Gingrich they have been much more aggressive. One of his chief enforcers is majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas, the third-ranking Republican in the House. DeLay is famous around Washington these days for "the book" he keeps in his office. It lists how much each...
...most of your time going from one coalition meeting to another." These are coordinated for Gingrich by Representative John Boehner. His Thursday Group, a round table of representatives from the various coalitions, meets every week at 11 a.m. in a room within Gingrich's suite of offices in the Capitol. Unconstrained by rules of public disclosure, they have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying efforts, most of it raised from large corporations...
...WHOSE BRILLIANT HEAD KNOCKING FINALLY produced a Bosnian peace agreement two weeks ago traveled to Capitol Hill last Wednesday seeking another miracle: congressional support for the plan that will shortly land 20,000 American troops in an area steeped in hatred and skilled at war. "It was kind of like running into a brick wall," says U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, "and the critics weren't just Republicans." Holbrooke addressed about 100 members of the House Democratic Caucus and received a standing ovation. It was "great," he says, "for about two minutes. Everyone was polite at first, saying...