Word: congress
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Furthermore, we must question Clinton's motives considering the timing of the attack. Congressional support of military action spreads quickly, and with it, support of the commander in chief. Clinton may well be trading innocent lives for votes in Congress, a possibility we find distressing...
...Democrats in Congress voiced their support for the attack. "Saddam Hussein should make no mistake that despite domestic political differences in the United States, the American people and Congress stand firmly behind the defense of our nation's vital interests", Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) said in a statement...
...governors' original optimism at the establishment of the commission has waned. Initially six instead of eight state and local representatives have been named, but ten instead of eight business representatives were. There are no representatives of consumer groups. Governors pushed Congress to make changes and one business representative was dropped for a local person. They are waiting to see what other changes might occur...
Shouldn't cybervendors and mail order companies pay the same as businesses on Main Street and the mall? This is one place where Congress doesn't need to play Santa. Marguerite Hoxie Sullivan is a fellow at the Institute of Politics. She served as a cabinet member for five years under New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman...
...Taxation confirm what has been a long and disturbing trend. "The burden on the middle class has always been outsize," says TIME columnist Daniel Kadlec. "The last tax reform law simply did not include enough people." While it's good that low-income households are benefiting from tax breaks, Congress has failed to consider that married cops and schoolteachers, in households where both spouses work, can now jointly earn $100,000 a year. "But in big cities like New York or Chicago, that hardly makes them rich," says Kadlec...