Word: gephardts
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...Clinton's stance on U.S. trade with Beijing, insisting after weeks of silence that China's most-favored-nation status be once again linked to the country's poor human-rights record. Unhappy with Clinton's low-key approach, Senate majority leaders George Mitchell and House majority leader Richard Gephardt want to revoke China's privileges on products made by the Chinese army, defense-related companies and certain state-owned enterprises...
...chairmanship if acquitted, Rostenkowski was compelled by Democratic caucus rules to hand over the post to the committee's ranking Democrat, Florida Representative Sam Gibbons, who has shown no special gift for horse trading. So the Administration is expecting its health-care point man to be majority leader Richard Gephardt. But like the rest of the House leadership, Gephardt is also more liberal than the crucial centrists whose support Clinton needs on health care...
...President's resolve will be tested by those who deride his new policy as "trickle-down liberty." Human rights, democracy and trade are "linked inseparably and indivisibly," declared House of Representatives majority leader Richard Gephardt. Clinton's reversal "will encourage China's intransigence," added Senate majority leader George Mitchell. Rather than fight to revoke MFN altogether, these influential Democrats will soon seek to broaden the category of penalized products to exclude from the U.S. about $900 million in goods produced by China's army and its commercial partners. With many in Congress eager to demonstrate their toughness, that proposal could...
...small and mid-size companies, were made optional. Clinton's vague talk of a broadly-based payroll tax was trimmed back to a 1% levy on self-insured companies with more than 1,000 employees. And parity for mental- health costs was dropped. Still, says House majority leader Richard Gephardt, "it's clear that for all of the public pronouncements and cynical assessments, Congress is actually moving forward on health reform, quietly, deliberately and responsibly...
...debate. It was time to close your notebook." No one has suggested that Clinton invested such power in a dummy or straw man. Like the President, Stephanopoulos has a sovereign command of policy issues. Unlike him, thanks to his tenure as floor assistant to House majority leader Richard Gephardt from 1989 to '91, he also understands the Hill. "He knows the Speaker," says a colleague. "He knows the Leader. When the time comes to pass legislation, he knows what it will take to get it done." Despite a well-documented left-of- center tilt (during his House years he could...