Word: gop
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Arthur Fletcher said he will announce his plans to run for President "as the affirmative action candidate" for the GOP nomination. Fletcher, 70, was appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by three GOP Presidents in a row: Ford, Reagan and Bush. In a statement, a spokesman for Fletcher said that he hopes to "force the extreme social conservative, right wing of his party to cease and desist with their race-baiting and gender-bashing campaign rhetoric...
...votes that fell along party lines. The plan includes $245 billion in tax cuts and $894 billion in spending cuts that hit Medicare, Medicaid and social services heavily. Action now moves to the appropriations committees where,TIME's Karen Tumultyreports, "the real work is already being done." The triumphant GOP package, she adds, falls short of promises by Kasich and others to eliminate a spate of federal agencies and offer $300 billion in tax cuts. The current plan would, however, abolish the Commerce Department...
...deepest pockets of them all? Campaign figures released today sayBob Dole, putative frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, raised more than $9 million over the past three months -- more than twice the amount raised byPhil Gramm, his strongest Republican rival. President Clinton, with $8 million and no Democratic opponent, is coasting...
...Pentagon budget into a European rapid-reaction force to protect U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who oppose U.S. spending on the U.N. effort, immediately sent the White House a letter accusing Clinton of circumventing the will of Congress. (The GOP leaders also balked at Clinton's intention to pay an additional $35 million for ancillary costs.) White House spokesman Mike McCurry saidthe President used his executive authority because the move had little chance of congressional approval; without the support, he added, the U.N. may withdraw its peacekeepers from the region altogether...
...Clinton's budget plan. The upside: "Al Gore's Cartoon Gallery," a video clip of Sen. Ted Kennedy reading from James Joyce's "Ulysses" and -- in the tradition of the "Socks" page on the White House Web site -- a discourse on the origin of the Democratic Party donkey. The GOP, whose supporters have a longer Internet track record, is gracious enough to include a link to "Liberal Lies...