Word: gephardts
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...preliminaries have already begun. In meetings with incoming White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, House minority leader Richard Gephardt--Al Gore's likeliest rival for the 2000 nomination--has warned the Administration not to go beyond the 1995 Democratic proposal of $124 billion in Medicare cuts. To distinguish himself from Gore, Gephardt knows he has to play to Democratic loyalists like seniors and union members. "I'm not going to be for something that slashes Medicare," he says. Though some form of means testing is all but inevitable, trustees say, Gephardt won't hear of it, and Clinton...
...Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour lept to Gingrich's side in support, in the form of a 650-word editorial in the New York Times and an afternoon press conference. In both venues, Barbour argued that Gingrich has been held to a different standard than Democratic leader Richard Gephardt. When Gephardt twice gave inaccurate information to a committee probing income from one of his rental properties, he was slapped on the wrist with a mild "be more diligent in the future." Though the chairman denied that his last-minute spotlight-hugging was an attempt to change the minds...
...right of center in order to win re-election. In this sense, his re-election has only served to underscore that the days of White House liberalism are over. Americans kept the Republican Congress in part because a majority of them viewed a potential Democratic Congress with Dick Gephardt in the Speaker's chair as too liberal. Also, for the first time, polls have shown that a majority of Americans want government to do less, not more. All told, Americans want to shrink the size of government...
...With reporting by Jay Carney with Gephardt, Dan Goodgame with Lott, J.F.O. McAllister with Clinton and Karen Tumulty with Gingrich
...Republican] Newt Gingrich Ga. $5,625,093 [*] [Democrat] Richard Gephardt Mo. $3,249,849 [*] [Democrat] Charles Schumer N.Y. $2,859,681 [*] [Democrat] Michael Coles Ga. $2,344,912 [Democrat] Ellen Tauscher Calif. $2,100,833 ? [Democrat] Vic Fazio Calif. $2,054,088 [*] [Republican] Greg Ganske Iowa $2,019,302 [*] [Democrat] Joseph Kennedy Mass. $1,885,342 [*] [Democrat] Martin Frost Texas $1,768,731 [*] [Republican] John Ensign...