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Last year virtually every proposal to cut corporate welfare met a quiet death at the hands of the committees that pass on spending and tax legislation. What House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and his forces considered unjustifiable giveaways other Congressmen defended as vital to their districts. In the end, the 25 or so programs considered most egregious by critics from all sides--say, building logging roads for timber companies at government expense--saw their budgets nicked some $2.6 billion, or only 16%, says Stephen Moore, fiscal-policy director of the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute. And for all its denunciation...
...bill. "There is a great urgency on the part of Dole to get things done," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "This is an item from the 'Contract with America' and it is very important for him to get it passed by the Senate and sent to the President." Republican Congressmen are more accepting of the measure now that President Clinton faces an election challenge in November and can sign only one more appropriation cycle until then. The bill would allow the president to veto specific spending programs approved by Congress, giving the president unprecedented power. A House-Senate conference...
...surprising that no one else seemed concerned about the possibility of an abduction. A couple of months ago, Democratic Congressmen were looking forward to running against Newt, linking their opponents to someone whose negative ratings were creeping toward the area once occupied exclusively by Saddam Hussein. How can you run against someone who's off in a spaceship having his bodily fluids removed and his orifices probed...
...August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
...August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...