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House Speaker Newt Gingrich was taken by surprise when 24 renegade Republicans teamed up with House Democrats late last night to shoot down a "Contract With America" proposal (by a vote of 218-212) that would have revived work on a "Star Wars"-style missile defense system. But GOP House members stuck together today on the far more significant issue of congressional authority over American foreign policy. By a vote of 241-181, the House passed a measure that would restrict the president''s authority to place U.S. troops under foreign command, would cut United Nations funding and would speed...
...Buchanan will make another run for the GOP presidential nomination, Reuters reports. A thorn in President Bush's 1992 re-election effort, Buchanan delivered a fiery speech at the last GOP convention, in which he vowed to "take back America, street by street, block by block.'' The would-be candidate reportedly made the decision after former Vice President Dan Quayle decided last week to drop out of the race, raising Buchanan's hope of claiming Quayle's Christian Right constituency. Buchanan associates said he would attend a Republican convention in New Hampshire this weekend and compete in a straw-poll...
Voting 238 to 192, the House passed a crime bill tonight that could derail President Clinton's plan to hire more police nationwide. The president has said that he would veto such a bill. The sixth and final segment of the GOP's anti-crime package replaces crime prevention programs and funds tied to localities increasing their police force -- two key components of the 1994 anti-crime law -- with a flexible block grant. But the measure faces an uphill fight in the Senate. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said that the Senate would have to come up with a single...
...speed the deportation of illegal aliens. The legislation makes the funding contingent on states imposing several tough sentencing rules, including one requirement that violent felons serve at least 85 percent of their sentenced time. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt said such a federal mandate runs counter to the GOP promise to give states more power. The crime bills, fourth and fifth in a six-part package, also would ban televisions from federal prison cells. Next item on the GOP list: letting states fund recreation programs with grants originally slated for hiring police. Clinton suggested he may veto that because...
...Ironically, Ostling says,Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole-- who is generally perceived as a political moderate -- now has an inside track with those voters. Today, Ostling notes, Christian Coaltion director Ralph Reed dubbed Dole the "front-runner" for his support of anti-abortion efforts. Reed mentioned only one other GOP candidate, Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, whom he prodded for keeping mum so far on "families and values...