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Even as the President was trying to line up bipartisan support, the Democratic leadership was leading the fight to give sanctions more time. The antiwar factions in both houses fell in behind nearly identical resolutions drafted by two presidential hopefuls: House majority leader Richard Gephardt and Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Nunn, with his hard-line reputation on most other military issues, was particularly important for attracting wavering Democrats...
When the Senate opened debate on Thursday, majority leader George Mitchell laid out the antiwar, pro-sanctions position. Warned Mitchell: "The grave decision for war is being made prematurely." In the House, Gephardt stressed that the opponents of war were not friends of Iraq. "The only debate here in the Congress is over whether we slowly strangle Saddam with sanctions or immediately pursue a military solution," he insisted. "The choice is really over tactics." Robert Michel, the House G.O.P. leader, countered that those seeking to rein in the President's war power were creating a "brass choir of indecision, doubt...
...Wilder sent Bush an open letter admonishing him to practice "moral leadership." The ideal of equal opportunity, Wilder said in a message that got wide attention, "is not a political football to be used by our President to appease the Jesse Helmses of this country." House majority leader Richard Gephardt, a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, placed the Republicans on "a new trail of racial resentment and recrimination blazed by David Duke, then trod successfully by Jesse Helms and now given a tarnished patina of intellectual respectability by William Bennett...
...DICK GEPHARDT (5-4). House majority leader dusted off sheaf of populist poses from '88; qualifies as first major Democrat to urge gulf caution. He's looking for a well-funded starting position...
With that decided, Gephardt placed a phone call to Budget Director Richard Darman, who was still the White House point man in the negotiations, though he and chief of staff John Sununu had both been cast in messenger roles because their aggressive arm bending in support of the budget summit's package had alienated many Republicans and most of the Democrats. Gephardt told Darman that the Democrats would give up the surtax in exchange for a tax-rate increase for the rich and a phaseout of their personal exemptions, along with a 5 cents gas tax hike...