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Pleading that he is pressed for time,House Speaker Newt Gingrichsaid he will step down as chairman of GOPAC, the cash-stuffed political action committee he used to help engineer theRepublican landslide last November. Since the GOP victory, the PAC has come under scrutiny for not disclosing information about donors and has beenthe subject of an ethics complaint. Gingrich's resignation is his latest move to trim his calendar and lower his profile. Earlier this week, he discontinued the Speaker's traditional daily press briefing. He has also stopped teaching a controversial weekend college course...
TIME has learned that House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-Ohio) is circulating documents in GOP circles that dramatically fulfill his promises of radical federal budget cuts. The package, which Kasich began showing House members under tight securi ty Thursday at a House Republican retreat in Leesburg, Va., includes elimination of three Cabinet departments (Education, Energy and Commerce), the General Services Administration and scores of government programs. It also calls for sharp cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "People have already started screaming...
...deceive," he said. "I had no reason to do so." Foster promised to lead a national campaign against teen pregnancies if confirmed. Does he have a chance? Even if the committee approves Foster, TIME correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said today that the GOP leadership would not bring the nomination to a floor vote "if there was any hint of filibuster." Senator Phil Gramm has already threatened a filibuster if the nomination is brought to the floor...
...weren't biting. At a hearing today, Committee chairman Bill Archer (R-Tx.) accused the White House of holding the $175 billion Medicare program "hostage" to its insistence on broader health reforms. But Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, testifying before the panel, fired back by suggesting the GOP was simply exaggerating Medicare's fiscal problems as an excuse to slash $300 billion by 2002 in order to fund tax cuts and balance the budget...
TheRepublican push to cut Medicarein order to balance the budget promises to flare into a full-fledged political dogfight this week,TIME Washington economics correspondent Suneel Ratanreports. On Tuesday, the GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee will fire the first shot, summoning Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, who signed a federal report stating that the Medicare system will go bust by 2002, and demanding timely congressional action. The Republicans plan to ask her what the Administration would do to prevent the collapse of the Medicare system. Ratan notes that slashing Medicare spending or raising taxes would seem...