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...turn from their desks to announce their votes aloud. But Moynihan was one of the few who bothered to stay at his seat during the voting. Democrats milled around. Republican Senators engaged in a round of celebratory backslapping with the 20 or so House members, including Speaker Newt Gingrich, who made a rare visit to the Senate chamber. Moynihan sat there with the pinched expression of a man watching the old certainties of his party expire without so much as a moment of silence...
...could be the Democratic reply line to the G.O.P.'s Medicare reforms sketched out last week by House Speaker Gingrich. Promising to "preserve, protect and strengthen'' the system, he offered a menu of proposals that includes HMOS, personal health-care accounts and a new form of doctor- and hospital-provided coverage. His plan would also raise premiums much faster than anything the Democrats have in mind. Even after outlining it, Republicans didn't have numbers to show how it would achieve $270 billion in savings over seven years. And much of those savings are targeted by Republicans...
...Democrats won't have long to make their case. Having seen the talking-to-death that brought down Clinton's health-care reform, Gingrich adroitly withheld his plan until the last minute, then provided only a few days for Democrats to counterattack. When House Republicans wouldn't budge on their insistence that there would be just one day of hearings on the Medicare proposal, Democratic frustrations hit the boiling point. Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida, who was Ways and Means Committee chairman until last year's Republican landslide, called it "a deliberate plot to put their program over before...
...mobilize health-care providers against the House G.O.P. plan, Clinton's chief of staff Leon Panetta convened a White House meeting with industry lobbyists and a representative of the American Association of Retired Persons. One health-care lobbyist told him he was too late. "We've been meeting with Gingrich every two days," he said. "They were the only game in town." So the Democrats have launched their own campaign. Taking their inspiration from the Harry and Louise ads that helped sink Clinton's health-care plan last year, the Democrats have rushed out their own commercials, in which...
Still, most Republicans who might have been offended by Powell's opinions remain complimentary. Words of praise came last week from Jack Kemp and William Kristol. Even House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is toying with the idea of entering the race, says that Powell could be a strong contender in the Republican primaries because of his standing as a war hero, an economic conservative and a person with strong family values. Says Gingrich: "I don't think a social moderate will necessarily lose the Republican primaries. [Powell] could put together a very interesting coalition...