Word: gop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans, have a plan for everyone. Now, if you are poor, you probably think that we don't care about you too much. You probably associate us with wealthy investors and big business. And sure, the GOP spends a lot of time advocating capital gains tax cuts, deregulation and a return to a smaller, less interventionist government. But we also have a variety of schemes for you--the poor Americans...
Harvard Republican Club President Jay Dickerson '98 said if the GOP's concessions were necessary to get the bill passed, he supports it. But he said Congress must continue downsizing government...
...Republicans on the Senate panel, which reopened its hearings into the affair on Wednesday, today said they would issue 49 document subpoenas to the White House, regulatory agencies and potential witnesses with material on the Whitewater affair. Democrats derided the demands as "blanket subpoenas" and complained that what the GOP calls White House foot-dragging is actually trouble complying with such voluminous requests...
Tumulty reports that while House Republicans seem firmly behind the bill, the GOP leadership is having a harder time in the Senate. The reason? Many Senate members are only now learning the details of the Republican plan: "The reconciliation bill was only released to the full Senate this week. Senate moderates, like Olympia Snowe, are only now beginning to see the full range of the cuts, and they're uncomfortable with them...
...Senate Finance Committee this afternoon approved the GOP tax cut proposal that Democrats claim Republicans would slash Medicare to pay for. On an 11-9 vote that split along party lines, the package would reduce taxes by $245 billion over the next seven years. The bill includes the $500-per-child tax credit featured prominently in the GOP's Contract With America, while it sharply reduces the Clinton Administration's earned-income tax credit. The bill now heads to the Senate floor as part of the larger Republican budget bill that seeks to eliminate the deficit...