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...serious plan but about who had a better one. Polls continued to show that a large majority of voters hated the G.O.P. Medicare proposals and thought they were designed mainly to make room for lavish tax cuts for rich Republican allies. This put Clinton in a neat position. If Gingrich and Senate majority leader Robert Dole accepted his terms, he could take credit for balancing the budget without shredding the safety net. If they rejected it, he could campaign for the rest of the year against a party that hates old people, children and breathable...
...Republicans' turn again. Working at a long table in the smoking section, Gingrich and House Budget chairman John Kasich agreed on an offer that reduced Medicare growth $168 billion, adopted the conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats' proposed savings of $85 billion on Medicaid, split the difference with Clinton on tax cuts at $177 billion and embraced the Senate's version of welfare reform, which 40 Democrats had voted for and Clinton had blessed, at least initially. They still held fast to the notion of transforming entitlements like Medicaid into block grants to the states. Gingrich figured that the proposal, when made...
...Gingrich and company prepared to set off for the White House that night, they got their first inkling that Clinton's crew was not in a conciliatory mood. In earlier budget summits, Gingrich, Dole and House majority leader Dick Armey had faced off against Clinton, Gore, Daschle, House minority leader Dick Gephardt and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta. Gephardt and Gore, who both have their eye on the presidential race in 2000, had come to be known among the Republicans as "the chaperons," as in "We could have gone further, but the chaperons were watching." This time...
...Oval Office session that evening, Gingrich presented the proposal he had cooked up at the restaurant, and argued that he had come a long way. But then came what looks like a defining moment in the talks, and in the whole bare-knuckle brawl. The Speaker warned that he would not allow a bill to come to a floor vote if he could not expect to win 200 Republican votes, out of 236 total. He had two reasons for drawing that line: first, he is determined that any balanced-budget plan have a distinctly Republican stamp; and second, he wants...
...many, Newt Gingrich may appear harsh and direct. But he has challenged the government to stop spending more than it takes in." PAUL D. MCKNIGHT Kansas City, Missouri...