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WASHINGTON, D.C: While House and Senate Republicans struggle to get their two budgets to button in the middle, President Clinton is in the political catbird seat, safely above the fray and loving it. Tuesday, Clinton was offering political cover to legislators who support hiking Medicare premiums for wealthy seniors. "I would be happy to defend the vote of any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, who votes for this," Clinton said. He also proposed that the Treasury Department collect the premium increases rather than the IRS, so that seniors don't get confused and think they're faced with...
...competitors, willing to tear one another to pieces for the privilege of providing you with low-cost phone service. AT&T and its long-distance rivals were to charge into the $100 billion market for local calling, freeing the seven Baby Bells to enter the $70 billion long-distance fray...
Jumping into the fray surrounding the issue of women and minorities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), a group of seniors unveiled the Alternative Senior Gift Fund (ASGF...
Keyes stepped into the primary fray to "make sure moral issues were addressed...
...they would puncture the hard-fought consensus reached after months of negotiations. House Transportation Committee chairman Bud Shuster, a major fan of highway construction, sought to boost the $125 billion budget agreement for highway improvement and construction by about 10 percent. The GOP's top brass joined in the fray, siding with the White House and twisting enough arms to defeat the amendment by a slim 216 - 214 margin. After the House passed the bill, Trent Lott managed to block the cigarette tax proposal by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Edward Kennedy, warning that he would pull the budget-balancing...