Word: gop
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...writing his autobiography in September. "I've checked the Constitution very carefully, and you do not have to belong to a political party," the popular former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman told an audience of 3,200 people at Salem State College Tuesday night. Can he afford to wait? GOP primary contenders are racing to compete now for campaign money and talented staffers. But as an indy,TIME political contributor Laurence Barrettsays, Powell would have little trouble getting on the ballot much later. One thing's sure - it can't hurt book sales.Campaign '96 File
...theGOP "Contract With America."With a tax vote slated for Wednesday, Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) predicted passage of a $500-per-child tax credit for families making up to $200,000 a year. But some lawmakers warned that the compromise may not hold because a number of GOP holdouts still want to scale back the tax credit, while another group wants to increase the contributions that federal workers make into their own retirement funds. "We don't yet have 218 votes lined up, but we're making good progress," said Tony Blankley, spokesman for House Speaker Newt Gingrich...
Former Buffalo Bills quarterback, congressman and Bush Administration housing secretary Jack Kemp today was tapped by the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill to head a feasibility study of broad GOP proposals to restructure the federal income tax system. The supply-sider will chair a commission of nine, four appointed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and four by Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, that will study competing Republican proposals.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramersays Dole may be trying to draw support from Kemp's followers for the1996 presidential race. "Kemp is a very valuable commodity in the party," says Kramer. "Anybody...
...environmental regulations, EPA head Carol Browner warned local officials late Wednesday that one in 10 Americans drinks from a water system that violates public health standards. "We cannot take the safety of our drinking water for granted," Browner told a group of local officials. "More remains to be done." GOP House members want to do less. Hours earlier, a subcommittee voted to gut the long-sacred Clean Water Act, which protects lakes, rivers and streams from pollution.TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompsonnotes that Browner, whom Republicans are now attacking for running a "partisan" EPA, is losing the fight. The water overhaul...
...Arlen Specter(R-Pa.), a moderate who supports abortion rights, launched his long-shot bid for the1996 GOP presidential nominationby warning that Republicans would squander an historic chance to control both Congress and the White House if they abandoned the political center. "Let me say this as plainly as I can," Specter, 65, said in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "Neither this nation, nor this party, can afford a Republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up by re-electing a president of the incompetent left." Is he right? In an interview...