Word: gop
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...Quayle has agreed to chair Campaign America, Bob Dole's political action committee, and to take a high-profile role helping shepherd GOP congressional candidates to victory in 1996 while the Senate majority leader runs for President. That doesn't mean Quayle has endorsed Dole, but it can't hurt the leading Republican's standing with the religious Right. "By adding Dan Quayle to a list of figureheads in the Dole operation, Dole is trying to reach out to conservatives who do not trust him," says political correspondent Michael Duffy. "To some conservatives, Quayle still has a kind of talismanic...
Democrats have blasted the Pell Grant proposals, emphasizing that the GOP plan cuts the overall appropriation for Pell Grants by $482 million and drops 280,000 students from the program...
...GOP leaders say balancing the budget and stopping the accumulation of national debt is best, in the long run, for today's students...
...latest TIME/CNN poll finds that if the 1996 presidential election were held today, Colin Powell, running on the GOP ticket, would beat Bill Clinton 46 percent to 38 percent. If he ran as an Independent, facing Dole for the GOP and Clinton, Powell would also win, said those polled...
While President Clinton pledged to veto the sort of Medicare cuts the GOP is promising, House Minority leader Dick Gephardt blasted Republicans for releasing sparse details about their plan to overhaul the health program, and for scheduling only one day of hearings on changes in the plan. Gingrich did not immediately respond to Gephardt's challenge. Although broad details of the Gingrich plan have been made public, congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that no detailed numbers have been provided to show just how the proposal would save $270 billion over the next seven years. "Gingrich's office says they haven...