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...color-blind new era. The measure would forbid the federal government from considering race or sex in hiring and the awarding of contracts, and would also bar the government from requiring contractors to observe racial or sexual preferences. Dole conceded today that back in 1986 he was among 23 GOP Senators who dissuaded President Reagan from eliminating the programs, but now he says he never anticipated that the set-asides would "become a seemingly permanent fixture in our society...
...aide recalled atSenate Whitewater hearingstoday. It was the first Senate airing of Reno's Whitewater worries. Earlier, Senate Whitewater committee chairman Al D'Amato (R-N.Y.) rebuffed a junior colleague's demand that Hillary Rodham Clinton be called before the panel. TIME Daily reported exclusively on Monday that GOP senators would ask that Mrs. Clinton be called to testify on whether she played any role in the removal of papers from Foster's office immediately after his 1993 suicide. "I certainly have no intention of calling her before this committee," D'Amato said when the hearings convened today. "There...
Flanked by original sponsors ofMedicare, President Clinton commemorated the program's 30th birthday and vowed to a crowd of mostly elderly Americans, "I'm not going to let the government mess with your Medicare." Right on schedule,GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrichaccused the President of "a despicable strategy" to scare seniors: "He knows his numbers are false. He knows his anlaysis is false." Republican leaders challenged Clinton to present a plan to save Medicare within a week, though they gave themselves more time: "Republicans will have in 50 days a specific plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy," promised House Ways...
...alone if necessary," he declared at a speech to delegates of Boys Nation, a high school good-government program in which he once took part. "There are a lot of things being done here which will violate and undermine our chances to achieve common ground." The President suggested the GOP was leaving him little choice but to veto fiscal 1996 appropriations bills -- an action that could (in theory) bring the federal government to a grinding halt. Citing a Congressional Budget Office analysis that found Clinton's plan would lead to a $209 billion deficit in the 10th year, Republican chairman...
Medicare turns 30next Sunday, and the Democrats are going to make sure Americans take note of that anniversary. Each day this week, party leaders announced today, concerned voters can expected a new, blistering attack on GOP plans to gut the system. Today's opening shot: "The Republican cuts would cause $1,000 additional cost to the average senior citizen" and his or her family, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri said at a news conference. "They're doing it not to balance the budget, not even to fix Medicare, but to give a tax break to people...