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...however, she will bring glamour and credibility to the case for arts funding. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director for San Diego's Old Globe Theater: "She has a realistic view of what we are up against, she is an eloquent advocate, she is a classy woman -- exactly what Capitol Hill should see." Says Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates, a congressional co-creator of the nea who chairs the subcommittee overseeing it: "She is well known, generally admired for her talents, bright and charming...
Four hours after Clinton spoke those words, conference co-chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan appeared with Senate majority leader George Mitchell and House Speaker Thomas Foley at the Capitol to announce agreement on the "broad outline" of a deal that cuts $250 billion in spending, raises $243 billion in new revenues and promises to reduce the deficit about $490 billion over the next five years. While some details remained to be worked out Monday, the big breakthrough came Thursday night when Moynihan and House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski agreed to accept the Senate proposal for a 4.3 cents...
...House Ways and Means Committee faces the threat of prosecution for embezzlement, and his senior aides are experiencing a grave crisis of confidence. Concerned and panicky, some employees of the Congressman who have been with him for many of his 16 terms are working the halls on Capitol Hill looking for new jobs and angling for yet-to-be-filled Administration posts. Rostenkowski has denied that he engaged in any illegal or unethical conduct...
...right, NAFTA, designed to dismantle virtually all trade barriers between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, could go into effect as planned on Jan. 1, 1994. But even as Kantor and his colleagues were negotiating, top White House political consultant Paul Begala was on Capitol Hill urging key Democrats to put off consideration of NAFTA until after they begin to debate the Clinton health-care package. That process could take months following the bill's planned introduction in late September. Such a delay could scuttle the trade accord...
While Lisa Foster had accommodated herself to the move to Washington, she became unhappy about it when she saw how the job was hurting her husband. When a friend told her several weeks ago that she had found a job in the Capitol, Lisa Foster said, "You are making the biggest mistake of your life." By then, it seems, Vince Foster had begun to see the move as a mistake as well. Foster had asked an Arkansas physician to send him an antidepressant, which arrived shortly before his death. While the drug may have been a step in the right...