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...wants to give up his share of medicine's glittering promise, whether it comes in the form of pills or paychecks. But the problems won't wait: health care has emerged as the most important domestic issue of the '90s. "At some point," says Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, "no one will be able to afford health care. We have...
Kerrey's also a mean-spirited Japan basher, an arch-protectionist and a supporter of massive and terribly inefficient farm subsidies. There's nothing charming about any of this. Despite his touchy-feely reputation, these views are cold, calculated politics designed to get the Gephardt vote and neutralize Harkin. Too bad the U.S. cannot afford to fight a trade war with Japan--not since the American share of world trade has declined by one-third in the last 20 years...
...General Accounting Office revealed that in one year alone, members of Congress bounced 8,331 checks -- 581 for $1,000 or more -- giving themselves, in effect, interest-free loans. Millionaire lawmakers, said investigators, were among the worst offenders, but the habit was shared by Foley, majority leader Richard Gephardt and minority whip Newt Gingrich, which may help explain the lack of enthusiasm for an investigation among any but the most novice Congressmen. "I wrote one check for insufficient funds," said Gingrich, "and deposited funds to cover it within 48 hours." Period...
Majority leader Gephardt was at pains to explain that lawmakers had been irresponsible only with each other's money, not the Treasury's. "The public should be aware that no taxpayer funds were used to cover insufficiencies," he said. "The funds of other members of Congress were employed to that end." Meanwhile, Speaker Foley called the reporting on the story "hysterical" and observed that the vast majority of the checks were for very small amounts...
...able to pass a law to stop the Israelis from building in the occupied territories, but we can see that they don't use our taxpayers' money in a way that is contrary to American policy," Leahy said. Even House majority leader Richard Gephardt, a frequent critic of the Administration who had been pushing for quick approval of the loan guarantees, rushed to the floor to denounce the "polarizing comments" coming from Israel's leaders...