Word: gephardts
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...Gingrich's Republicans are already in the dizzying position of being the leaders and watching the Democrats starting to play the spoilers. Weeks before the session began, House minority leader Dick Gephardt, determined to prove that his Democrats are still in the game, came forward with a tax-cut plan that is both cheaper than Gingrich's and more closely targeted to the middle class. One of Gingrich's recent planning sessions came on a morning when the Washington Post had announced what would have seemed preposterous before the election: the Clinton White House was actually thinking about killing...
...House committees and require a three-fifths vote to raise income tax rates. Republicans now have majorities in both chambers: 230-204 with one independent in the House, and 53-47 in the Senate. Congressional Democrats said they'd cooperate with the GOP majority; however, House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri warned that "agreement will not often be easy." In their first hours as a minority, House Democrats quickly faced their first defeat: A Democratic bid to put a prohibition on gifts from lobbyists failed...
...could deduct smaller amounts). Second, Clinton offered a $500-per-child tax credit for all children under 13 in families that earn up to $60,000 a year, and reduced credits for families earning up to $75,000 annually. (That's more restrictive than House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt's $75,000 limit and the GOP's proposed $200,000 ceiling.) Third, Clinton would allow families earning $100,000 or less to place up to $2,000 a year in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) -- with the new provision that the money could be withdrawn for educational and other family...
...days before President Clinton unveils a middle-class tax cut to staunch the bleeding from his party's November defeat, House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri proposed his own lower- and middle-income tax break, then slammed Republicans as "trickle-down terrorists." Gephardt denied he was trying to upstage Clinton, but said "there will be and probably can be times when we are not going to agree and House Democrats are going to have our own proposals." Implicit in the remarks: Clinton shoulders much of the blame for Democrats' failure to "speak to the growing sense of insecurity" among...
Winter's coming took on a symbolic chill for congressional Democrats as they eulogized 40 years of majority rule during a last lame-duck session, convened for GATT. Preparations for the bleak unknown began with Democratic House leadership elections. Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri briefly climbed out of his hospital bed to secure the nod as minority leader before returning for a gallbladder operation; he will be joined by newly elected minority whip David Bonior of Michigan and California's Vic Fazio, now the House Democratic caucus chairman. In the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota was voted...