Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cool the excesses of the House. But more importantly, the senate must take real action to put aside partisan politics and take up real legislation that will have a positive impact on people's lives. Very few outside the rabid right-wing will fault the Senate for breaching the Contract with America The Senate should put aside the Republican rantings and take up an American agenda...
Earlier this year, Jeff gave the readers of TIME's U.S. edition a look at the Thursday Group, a circle of industry lobbyists and conservative groups convened by Republican Congressmen to help pass the Republican Contract with America-with significant potential rewards for the interests the members represented. Time's Washington bureau chief, Dan Goodgame, says that story is a perfect demonstration of Jeff's exceptional gifts: "Who pushes for a law, who blocks it, who gets hurt, whose interests are at stake-that's what Jeff looks...
...Gingrich can expect as they begin the hardest part of their agenda: facing the enormous political risks involved in slashing Medicare and an array of other sacred-cow government programs to balance the budget and pay for the tax cuts Gingrich has termed the "crowning jewel" of the Contract with America. Indeed, there was cold sweat at a no-press-allowed retreat in suburban Virginia at week's end, where G.O.P. House members had to go to secure conference rooms to read numbered copies of House budget chief John Kasich's blueprint for slicing an astonishing $1.4 trillion from federal...
...Reed has been determinedly pressing Republican politicians to move toward the Coalition's right-wing policies. Last week the Coalition lobbied hard against the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General. Next week the Christian Coalition and many of its Republican allies will unveil their sequel to the Contract with America: the Contract with the American Family. Meanwhile, presidential candidates are dropping in on Reed for counsel. Bob Dole's attack on the morals of Hollywood was the result of consultations with Reed. Lamar Alexander, who last summer held that Washington should neither subsidize nor prohibit abortion, began shifting...
...hand in hand with the congressional Republican leaders and defines its purpose loosely as "pro-family," which encompasses such mainstream issues as deregulation and welfare reform. Acting then as a team player for the Republican Party, the Coalition poured more than $1 million into the effort to pass the Contract with America, including $250,000 for advertising, direct mail and phone-bank work on behalf of the balanced-budget amendment -- not generally considered a scriptural imperative...