Word: gop
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Despite Republican attempts to bolster public support for their tax cut over the August recess, polls continued to show that tax cuts are not a priority for most Americans. The GOP's 10-year, $792 billion tax cut would drain funds away from social programs like education in order to give those in the top tax brackets what the Republicans are calling "tax relief". In fact, the tax cut would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy, not increase median incomes for the shrinking middle class...
Education is one of the most pressing concerns of voters today, and yet the Republican tax cut would jeopardize the smaller classes and literacy programs that education proponents within the GOP, like Texas Gov. George W. Bush, have supported...
Well, chalk one up for the GOP. By packaging a party favorite in a veto-proof $288.9 billion defense bill that includes a military pay raise and a 4.4 percent across-the-board increase in Pentagon spending, Senate Republicans have pushed through a broad reorganization of the Department of Energy that will largely separate the nation?s nuclear labs from the rest of the department. The Republicans say the measures will streamline administration, increase accountability and prevent the kind of embarrassing security snafus that made Wen Ho Lee a household name...
...fight over it, not when the larger defense bill passed the Senate 93-5 and the House 375-45. And if the plan won?t slow down Chinese spying much, it is at least a minor blemish on Clinton's record card ? and that?s good enough for the GOP...
...prayer protectionists who are fightin' mad over the Republicans' slow-but-insistent move back to the center under George W. Bush. With a Reform party nod, Buchanan gets a brand-new pan-partisan forum for his populism ? in his third go-round, his act is wearing thin with GOP voters ? and a brand-new war chest. (Thanks to Perot's 9 percent showing in 1996, the Reform nominee is guaranteed $12.6 million in federal money, far more than Buchanan has been able to raise this year.) But what does the Reform party get? A candidate who, undeniably, has a shot...