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...economists stopped what they were doing, placed a call to the same telephone number and spent the next 90 minutes debating how to save George W. Bush from his own party. Not that any of the economists--all good Republicans--put it that way. But with the G.O.P. in Congress engaged in a tax-cutting frenzy that has perturbed even the imperturbable Alan Greenspan, the pressure on Bush's team of number-crunching advisers to devise an economic plan for the presidential front runner has intensified. Their task: to satisfy the Republican Party faithful's lust for tax cuts while...
...some fiscally prudent Republicans. (The Senate passed its own tax cut last Friday, which also totaled $792 billion.) That may explain why some Bush advisers last week played down the endorsement's significance. "Can you imagine the Republican front runner not endorsing a tax cut passed by a Republican Congress?" asked one. But Al Gore wasted no time slagging the Texas Governor. "You can't squander the surplus and keep our economy strong," Gore said Friday. "You can't have your cake...
...surprisingly, the national legislature has done the least to represent the nation on this issue. After the passage of the 1994 crime bill and its ban on assault weapons, the Republican Congress of 1994 nearly overturned the assault-weapons provision of the bill. Until Columbine the issue remained moribund, and after Columbine, moribund began to look good to the gun lobby. Thanks to an alliance of House Republicans and a prominent Democrat, Michigan's John Dingell, the most modest of gun-control measures, which had barely limped wounded into the House from the Senate, was killed. "Guns have little...
After days of negotiations in Congress over tax reform legislation, many of the education tax relief provisions contained within the original Senate and House versions of the bills will remain in tact...
After days of negotions by the Joint Committee on Taxation--made up of members of the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee--the Congress narrowly approved a final version of the bill yesterday. Republican leaders plan on sending the legislation to President Clinton when they return from summer recess in September...