Word: gop
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...Four GOP presidential hopefuls --Phil Gramm,Pete Wilson,Arlen Specterand Bob Dornan - have asked New York Gov. George Pataki to derail Bob Dole's attempt to keep them off the state's primary ballot. Pataki has joined most other high-ranking New York Republicans in backing Dole for president.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramerexplains that under New York election rules, Dole could keep other names off the ballot in certain key congressional districts, unless his opponents engage in ruinously-expensive grass-roots efforts. Dole learned this trick the hard way back in 1988, when Vice President George Bush used...
...Congress. Newt Gingrich and his colleagues, mounting an all-out attack on big government, bemoan the ineffectiveness and incompetence of government bureaucracy. At the same time--with no argument from Clinton--they strive to put ever-more-powerful weapons in the hands of the criminal justice apparatus; the GOP crime bill passed by the House would speed up the execution process and give police broader search powers. Such selective surgery on governmental powers shows that the Republican crusade isn't mostly about government's fallibility, but about confirming lawmakers' power to judge, to separate the deserving from the despised...
...stump toremind America that the chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending cuts package that the Senate passed Thursday night. Senate Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, chosen to respond...
...several major"Contract With America" reformsinto a giant package this summer, making it difficult for President Clinton to veto any single set of reforms. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) today told a small group of reporters that the Senate GOP would combine its upcoming versions of tax cuts, spending cuts, welfare reform and other initiatives into a "reconciliation bill" by August or September. Tumulty says the claim -- so far unsubstantiated by GOP leaders -- is probably on target: theGOP needs a fast-track planto see the "Contract" become law this year...
...House Republicans going to celebrate the triumphant end of their first "100 days" (actual count: 91 days) in power? Still flushed from Wednesday's tax-cut win , House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other GOP luminaries gathered in a Washington hotel ballroom this evening for a pull-out-the-stops jubilee entitled "Promises Made, Promises Kept." First on the bill,TIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighreports: an R&B band called (believe it or not) the Red Hot Swinging Johnsons...