Word: gop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Facing a nearly solid blockade of GOP opposition, President Clinton drew a line in the political sand and proposed increasing the minimum wage by 90 cents to $5.15 an hour over a two year period. In a Rose Garden ceremony, Clinton said that without the increase, the real buying power of the minimum wage would fall to a 40-year low next year. To counter this, Clinton proposed two hikes of 45 cents each over the current level of $4.25 an hour. But even as he released the plan, the Administration braced for what will surely be a bloody battle...
Twenty-two GOP House members wrote President Clinton demanding that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown resign because of questions about his personal finances. The letter cited concerns raised in the news media about Brown's business dealings with a company owned by a Democratic Party fund-raiser. Brown's attorney, Reid Weingarten, denounced the attack as "extremely partisan" focusing "on allegations that were completely investigated (by the Justice Department). He was completely exonerated...
...even with these recent Republicans successes on the state level, observers say the GOP must still overcome many obstacles if it is to permanently establish itself on the state's political scene...
...down, eight to go for the GOP "Contract With America." The House passed legislation requiring Congress to pay for regulations it imposes on states and local governments today, in a bipartisan 360-74 vote. The Senate approved its version of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, 86-10, last Friday. President Clinton has voiced support for the bill, and is expected to sign it into law. Today's vote puts a second check mark in Newt Gingrich's little book, next to last week's balanced budget amendment victory...
When House GOP caucus chair John Boehner of Ohio took the floor with warnings that Clinton's peso rescue plan was "unfortunate," Gingrich -- who happened to be meeting with Vice President Al Gore -- took the mike: "I think it was very unfortunate to have a member of the leadership come out when the vice president is here being very helpful and very cooperative frankly . . . The president had the courage to do what he was being told by very sophisticated experts was vital to reinforce international markets...