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Privately, Clinton Administration officials were ecstatic about Gingrich's comeuppance. The heart of the White House objection to the Republican budget plan is that it favors the rich, as well as "checkbook lobbying," all of which the FEC's charges against Gingrich seemed to buttress. Last week, after three days of negotiation, neither side was making any concessions to reach agreement on a seven-year budget deal. Said Armey: "We have not gotten the President to talk to us in any substantive way. They are still pursuing a strategy of failure." Responded Leon Panetta, White House chief of staff...
...Hotel across from the White House. Of this offer and others in the Barbour letter, R.N.C. spokeswoman Mary Crawford says, "That's just sort of the way it's done." That may be exactly why the Republicans of Newt's revolution are unlikely soon to rewrite the laws governing checkbook politics...
Smith said the council has a funding shortage because past treasurers essentially failed to balance the council's checkbook...
...frank, it was a mess," Blais said. "We were bouncing checks all the time first semester last year, and nobody ever balanced the checkbook...
...Gates is feeling a little cranky these days, he has good reason. The Justice Department just derailed his $2 billion bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken electronic-checkbook program, a deal that would have helped realize Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction in cyberspace. Another team of government lawyers is snooping around asking questions about Microsoft Network, the new online service he plans to launch in August. And an antitrust suit that has been hanging over his head for nearly five years -- and which he thought he had settled last summer...