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...corporations, small businesses and families. But in a TIME/CNN survey of 800 adults last week, 62% said reducing the federal budget deficit was "more important" than cutting taxes--a larger number than recorded in 1992. That sentiment helped explain why 102 House Republicans--including 10 of 20 committee chairmen and 35 of 73 freshmen-asked the leadership to revise the contract's proposed $500 per child tax credit and limit it to taxpayers making less than $95,000 a year. Otherwise, they argued, the credit would go to anyone making up to $200,000--hardly just the middle class. Perhaps...
...campaign." For the past two years, he has built quiet inroads among Republican activists in 500 cities nationwide through a monthly cable-TV show called The Republican Neighborhood Meeting. Meanwhile, Alexander has assembled an impressive campaign and fund-raising staff, including six of the past eight Republican national finance chairmen...
...weaknesses of the true believer. He has proved that he is willing to march ahead; whether he can convince enough people to follow him is another question. As he makes his plans clearer, the grousing is getting louder, with some of the bitterest complaints coming from fellow committee chairmen. Snapped one Republican: ``He wants to be secretary of everything...
...Massachusetts is not the player that it was inthe past when we had committee chairmen," he says."All the news we have gotten is thatRepresentative Kasich is determined to end theinterest subsidy...
...SDiegoPaul Perhaps we are witnessing the birth of parliamentary government in the U.S. Through the concentration of enormous power in the office of Speaker, Gingrich is like a Prime Minister--locally elected, raised to power by the majority party, able to form a sort of cabinet of committee chairmen. The notion derives further support from the increasingly irrelevant house of bombastic lords in the Senate and the largely ceremonial figurehead in the White House...