Word: gop
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...with the federal government to report toxic chemical emissions. "This is an insurance policy," said Carol Browner,Environmental Protection Agencychief. "The idea is to prevent another Love Canal," says TIME's Andrea Dorfman. The move by the President is seen by some political observers as a response to the GOP's attempt last week in the house to weaken right-to-know laws...
...Dole's biggest challenge this week," says TIME's Karen Tumulty, "is getting conservative Republicans to go along with his bill." The debate on the Senate floor has laid bare deep divisions within the GOP over the right way to reshape the program. Dole's bill would shift control of funding for welfare to the states in the form of block grants. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), who is leading the conservative opposition on the Senate floor, believesmore draconian measures must be taken to discourage out-of-wedlock births. His amendments would ban cash assistance to unwed mothers under...
...budget cutting." Dole, who spoke earlier, said he would introduce legislation by week's end to convert Aid to Families with Dependent Children and some child care and job training programs into block grants. TIME's Sam Allis says Dole's plan drew enthusiastic support today from all 30 GOP governors. "Clinton tried to sweeten the pot significantly," Allis says. "But where he sees a federal role, Republicans still see entitlements...
...rule-making for one year.Part of a $79.4 billion bill that funds environmental, housing, veterans, and space programs for next year, the amendments would have halted regulations that keep drinking water free of arsenic, reduce toxic emissions for oil refineries, check pesticides in food, and control sewage overflows. GOP freshman Dave Macintosh, who chaired former Vice President Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness, tried to convince his congressional colleagues that the EPA is ideologically driven and that the targeted regulations "actually, in some ways, harm the environment and certainly cost us jobs." But opponents said the measures paralyze environmental protection...
...attorney, Clifford Sloan, discovered and called attention to scraps of paper in Vincent Foster's briefcase while searching Foster's office two days after he died, but was rebuffed by then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Foster attorney Michael Spafford told a congressional panel today. "This is troubling," responded GOP Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who is chairingthe Whitewater Hearings. Republicans have repeatedly questioned why it took the White House six days after Foster's death to discover the torn suicide note and another 30 hours to release it to the public. But that night, Spafford recalled, getting Foster's files...