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Still, the speech goaded Republicans in Congress to produce a new welfare bill of their own, since it could hardly help their election prospects--or Dole's--to let the President out-tough them on this issue. Congress has already made some important concessions to his earlier objections. The Medicaid block grants that Clinton called a "poison pill" have been removed, and many softeners sought by the Governors have been added: child-nutrition programs, extra aid for recession-hit states, money for child care, foster care and adoption, and medical benefits for working families...
...brief moments last week, Bob Dole soared. after his self-destructive waffles about tobacco, assault weapons and abortion, Dole found in education reform an issue on which he and Bill Clinton disagree so fundamentally that the President's tactic of "me-tooing" Dole's proposals is simply not an option...
WASHINGTON, D.C: Bob Dole got it half right. He understands the value of promising a fat tax cut in an election year, but he was caught flat-footed when the Clinton White House shot his plan full of holes the day before he announced it. Soldiering on, Dole announced today that his economic master plan will "downsize" the IRS, while making taxes "fairer, flatter and simpler." The plan may include sweeping capital gains tax exemptions for small business owners. While Dole himself is not ready to put a figure on a possible tax cut, his top aides say a plan...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole celebrated his 73rd birthday Monday at Sara's Circle, a senior citizen's center, where he donated his first pension check of $6,650 to the elderly residents. "I was thinking about next year, how great it would be to have this Party in the White House," said the GOP presidential nominee. If elected in November, Dole would be the oldest first-term President ever. And yet: the septuagenarian has lower cholesterol and blood pressure levels than the soon-to-be 50-year-old Bill Clinton. Still, to counter perceptions to the contrary, Dole said last...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole is on a crusade to widen the appeal of the Republican Party, and he doesn't care whose toes he steps on to get there. "Dole has calculated that he must move farther toward the center," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "He is purposefully trying to upset the conservative base to appeal to the moderate middle and he thinks he can afford to do so." Dole has enraged the NRA by reneging on a pledge to repeal the assault weapons ban. The organization, which claims 3 million members, says it will now concentrate its efforts...