Word: carney
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...Reported by James Carney and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...stand by the budget he sent to Congress last month. In doing so, he brushed off a challenge from House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who dared Clinton to "show the entire country, including Republicans, how he would achieve a balanced budget." Beneath it all, says TIME White House correspondent James Carney, Clinton "was trying out campaign lines. He's trying to make himself credible again, but he's still got some work...
...leadership abroad," Clinton told his enthusiastic audience. "And I am determined, notwithstanding all the crosscurrents in our country, that we shall preserve that commitment." But Clinton dodged what White House aides said would be a public statement opposing Canada's Quebec separatist movement. TIME White House correspondent James Carney, in Ottawa with the president, says Clinton feared offending the separatists -- one of whom is now an opposition leader in Canada's government -- even though "it's obviously in the U.S. interest to deal with one country...
...highlight of the private White House itinerary, Carney notes: First Lady Hillary Clinton's scheduled turn on an Ottowa ice rink Friday...
...troops under foreign command, would cut United Nations funding and would speed expansion of NATO membership to include Eastern European countries. Clinton is expected to veto that measure. He has maintained that it would erode the president''s authority as commander in chief. TIME White House correspondent James Carney says some Republicans may cross the aisle again to fight GOP-backed spending increases they see as excessive, while they will maintain party loyalty on other issues...