Word: gop
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...abortion record, Clinton today declared the 61-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist a "pro-life, pro-choice doctor." Foster will testify Tuesday before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has threatened to block a full Senate vote on the controversial nomination, said the GOP will hammer at the Administration's belated disclosures that Foster had supervised hundreds of abortions. "This is about telling the truth," said Dole. "This is about the White House leveling with the American people and not letting it drip, drip, drip out as the American people find...
House Republicans are contemplating a stunning$305 billion cut in projected Medicare spendingto help balance the budget, but that hasn't stopped Speaker Newt Gingrich from rolling the hot potato down Pennsyvlania Avenue. Today, he challenged the Clinton administration, which has accused the GOP of cutting Medicare togive tax breaks to the rich, to come up with its own proposal to reform the ailing Medicare system by May 15. "Our goal will be, by September, to bring in a bill that will save the Medicare system for a generation," Gingrich told a group of seniors. He added: "We are going...
House Republicans are eyeing a politicallyrisky plan to cut $305 billion from Medicare, congressional aides said today. The GOP feels that the cuts are necessary if they are to fulfill their pledge to balance the federal budget within seven years. The strategy -- under discussion this week at closed-door meetings among Republican members of the House Budget Committee -- may include incentives to enroll in less costly, managed-care plans, as well as higher fees for upper income recipients. Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, who expects to face down similar GOP proposals in the Senate, went on the attack...
TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratansays Domenici -- the Senate's chief budgeteer -- plans to announce Thursday his plans for cutting an "unimaginable" $1 trillion from projected federal spending over the next seven years in a bid to fulfill the GOP promise to balance the budget by 2002. Roughly a third of those proposed cuts are expected to come from projected Medicare spending. Ratan says that both parties believe such cuts are necessary, and now Domenici is throwing down the gauntlet...
Visiting Iowa today ten months before the presidential caucuses, President Clinton promised to protect farm subsidiesfrom the deep cuts proposed by the GOP. While Clinton wants to cut the $10 billion program by $1.5 billion over the next five years, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind) has suggested cuts ten times as large. The President stressed that planned GOP spending cuts target programs needed by small family farms...