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...Freer trade is Clinton's magic formula for prosperity; being stripped of his negotiating powers will be a victory for Dick Gephardt, labor unions and all the other Democratic demons of the Carter-Mondale years that Clinton's 'global economy' supposedly vanquished...
...Gephardt (or at least Gephardt 2000), the stakes are just as high. This is a huge chance to stick it to Gore (while bringing most of the House Democrats with him) on a working-guy issue that will play gangbusters on the campaign trail. For once he may pull...
...White House can protect its votes, Fast Track should pass the Senate eventually. That would set up quite a battle in the House, where Dick Gephardt, flush with support from Big Labor, is determined to hold out against Gore and the rest of the Administration's free-trade crowd. It's too early to pick a winner. But expect a casualty...
Then came Monday, when the White House learned that House minority leader Dick Gephardt was planning to support the bill. That would open the way for nervous Democrats to get behind it in droves, maybe even enough to give it a veto-proof majority. It also threatened to leave Al Gore stranded as apologist for the taxman in the next Democratic presidential primaries, which potential rivals like Gephardt and Kerrey would be happy to see. That was enough for Clinton. On Tuesday he went public with his turnaround. On Wednesday the bill rumbled out of Ways and Means with...
...party. The bill calling for an oversight board is the product of an IRS reform commission co-chaired by Portman and Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, who could challenge Gore for the Democratic nomination in 2000. In the House, another likely Gore rival, minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, this week will come out in favor of the Portman-Kerrey bill. Proponents are predicting that so many Democrats will abandon the Administration that the bill could pass the House, and maybe even the Senate, with enough votes to overcome a presidential veto. "We're probably going to get killed...