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While President Clinton pledged to veto the sort of Medicare cuts the GOP is promising, House Minority leader Dick Gephardt blasted Republicans for releasing sparse details about their plan to overhaul the health program, and for scheduling only one day of hearings on changes in the plan. Gingrich did not immediately respond to Gephardt's challenge. Although broad details of the Gingrich plan have been made public, congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that no detailed numbers have been provided to show just how the proposal would save $270 billion over the next seven years. "Gingrich's office says they haven...
House Minority leader Dick Gephardt is challenging Speaker Newt Gingrich to a debate on Medicare. Gephardt blasted Republicans for releasing sparse details about their plan to overhaul the health program, and for scheduling only one day of hearings on changes in the plan. Gingrich did not immediately respond to Gephardt's challenge. Although broad details of the Gingrich plan have been made public, congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that no detailed numbers have been provided to show just how the proposal would save $270 billion over the next seven years. "Gingrich's office says they haven't released the specifics...
...compared with the unremitting fiscal conservatism that the G.O.P. candidates are likely to preach to an antideficit choir of Perot backers in Dallas. The Democrats can offer only a cacophony of views, ranging from the leftist tract of Jackson to the more centrist perspectives of House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. Clinton counselor Thomas "Mack" McLarty, relatively conservative, will stand in for the President...
...this week, party leaders announced today, concerned voters can expected a new, blistering attack on GOP plans to gut the system. Today's opening shot: "The Republican cuts would cause $1,000 additional cost to the average senior citizen" and his or her family, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri said at a news conference. "They're doing it not to balance the budget, not even to fix Medicare, but to give a tax break to people who don't need a tax break." President Clinton plans to grab the baton Tuesday at a Medicare "birthday celebration" event...
...from its national party message on any issue." The cause of their discontent: Democratic opposition to a bill relaxing water-pollution regulations and, thus, helping each of the Southerners' watery districts by easing restrictions on the use of wetlands. Last Tuesday Laughlin met privately with House minority leader Richard Gephardt over the issue, but even if animosities subside, the tide of defections probably will...