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House Republicans easilypassed their historic legislation to balance the federal budgetin a well-scripted, near-party-line vote of 238-193. The bill, which the GOP claims would lead to the first budget surplus since 1969, aims to bring to an end decades of federal deficits by wrenching an unprecedented $1.4 trillion in savings from budgets over the next seven years.Medicare and Medicaid would take the biggest hitsand hundreds of other federal programs would vanish. But majority House members -- unlike senators, who today began debating their $961 billion measure -- would try toease the painwith $350 billion in tax breaks...
...GOP presidential candidate Phil Grammadmits that $7,500 of his money somehow wound up financing a never-completed, R-rated movie called "Beauty Queens," but the Texas senator vehemently denies that he ever had any interest in financing pornography. Wednesday night, Gramm branded as false an account of the 1974 transaction by his former brother-in-law, George Caton, reported this week in The New Republic. One of the story's most damaging charges: that Gramm took an interest in movie investing after watching a film called "Truck Stop Women." TIME Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne notes that...
Vice President Gore launched a new Administration charge today against GOP plans to balance the budget by 2002, saying Republicans would face a "rendezvous with reality" when voters come to understand the impact of proposed cuts in Medicare and scores of other programs. "I predict they're going to experience a number of conversions within their ranks," he said, "especially among those running for re-election next year." House Speaker Newt Gingrich, noting that Gore offered no alternative budget-balancing plan, accused the White House of "taking a walk" on the issue...
Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) blinked today, announcing that Republicans want to create a bipartisan congressional commission to work out the details of theirpolitically-sensitive plan to balance the budgetwithin seven years. The tactic, announced a day before House and Senate GOP leaders are due to unveil their respective budget cut proposals, is an attempt to draw Democrats into a potentially-explosive budget process that may include up to$300 million in Medicare cuts. Also today, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, advocated raising the eligibility age for Medicare...
...GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole's arsenal of advisers long includedformer president Richard Nixon. Before the late president died last year, he left Dole a wealth of advice onhow to make it to the White House. Dole gave aletter from Nixondetailing his strategic advice to the Los Angeles Times, which reported it today. To be nominated, Nixon wrote, "you have torun as far as you can to the rightbecause that's where 40 percent of the people who decide the nomination are. And to get elected, you have to run as fast as you can back to the middle because...