Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country, President Clinton was preferred by 42% of those surveyed, vs. 41% for the congressional Republicans. Clinton is up 12 points since early December, while the G.O.P. is down five points during the same period. Partly because of his abrasive style and partly because of Democratic characterizations of the contract as unfair to the poor, poll ratings for Gingrich have become more negative. Some 47% of those polled disapproved of his handling of his job as Speaker, while 40% approved. Just a month ago, his negative rating in this category was seven points lower...
...chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending cuts package that the Senate passed Thursday night. Senate Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, chosen to respond to Gingrich's speech Friday, added...
Senate Democratic leaders are warning that their Republican colleagues plan to roll several major"Contract With America" reformsinto a giant package this summer, making it difficult for President Clinton to veto any single set of reforms. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) today told a small group of reporters that the Senate GOP would combine its upcoming versions of tax cuts, spending cuts, welfare reform and other initiatives into a "reconciliation bill" by August or September. Tumulty says the claim -- so far unsubstantiated by GOP leaders -- is probably on target: theGOP...
...Republicans say they want to dismantle. The bill, approved by Congress, eventually would let an estimated 3.2 million self-employed people deduct 30 percent of theirhealth insurance premiums. It also would eliminate tax breaks for companies that sell TV stations to minorities, while retaining the benefit for Murdoch's contract to sell an Atlanta station to a minority firm. That would save Murdoch an estimated $63 million. The exception was inserted by Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) to help a group of Illinois investors involved in the Murdoch deal...
...Republicans said [their victories] represented the true will of the electorate...but I don't believe the Contract had much to do with it," Foley said. "That mythology helps the speaker impose on the Republican majority a certain discipline...