Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress, it seems, has successfully checked President Clinton's every move and will continue to do so until the Republicans' "Contract with America" has run its gamut, or until Clinton has been run out of office. Although the warning alarms in the White House began shrieking the day after the November election, the response so far has been slow and piecemeal. As the leader of our government, President Clinton should take heed to the crisis at hand and realize that he is treading on thin...
...fact, Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," compared with Perot's manifesto, is timid in attacking the deficit and ignores other major items on Perot's priority list as well. Even legislators who have enjoyed explicit support from Perot have stiffed him on such critical issues as nafta, gatt and the Administration's effort to nourish Mexico's anemic currency. When Congress was considering gatt last November, Perot warned that if the trade agreement was approved, which it was, United We Stand would consider forming a new party. Local chapters all over the country-prodded by national headquarters in Dallas...
...could wait until the voting was over and the potshots resumed. More than a month of debate and horse trading, cajoling and drafting budget charts on the backs of envelopes resulted in the hairbreadth defeat of the balanced-budget amendment, a centerpiece of the "Contract with America." It was the first reality check for Republicans since they barreled into Washington in January. Certainly it will complicate the job of congressional G.O.P. leaders, who are still promising to make the $1.2 trillion in cuts necessary to balance the budget by the year 2002, the deadline in the amendment. The loss...
...record as Governor, supporters claim, foreshadowed a lion's share of the "Contract with America," from welfare reform, which Wilson has applied incrementally every year, to tax cuts, which he proposed in his current budget. On crime, Wilson was a leader of the three-strikes-you're-out movement. On immigration, he earned more points with conservatives by spearheading Proposition 187, which, if upheld by the courts, will deny schooling and other state services to illegals. But Wilson's biggest achievement as Governor has been the fiscal stabilization of California with a budget ax that year after year has held...
...Contract Modifications...