Word: gop
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...Simon (D-Ill.), a leading Democratic proponent, said today, but added: "It's by no means certain." Similar hedging came from House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who nonetheless crowed after Thursday's bipartisan vote: "This is a historic moment for our country." TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says the Senate GOP leadership will have to campaign hard to overcome an expected challenge from the body's most formidable Democratic obstructionist, West Virginia's Sen. Robert Byrd. "In the Senate, they have exactly 67 votes," Tumulty says. "So it's not a few votes either way -- it's one vote either...
...morning attacked Clinton's $40 billon loan guarantee proposal as a "billionaires' bailout," saying Mexico is unlikely to pay it back. "Let's cut out this nonsense of trying to hoodwink the American people," Hollings told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, where Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) ignored GOP leaders more sympathetic to the plan by giving its opponents a daylong public forum to gripe. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin touted the IMF loan -- largest in the organization's 51-year history -- as the international community's vote of confidence on Mexico's ability to recover. But in Congress, says...
...advisors, Frank Luntz, encourages Republicans to agree to perform the inherently contradictory wishes of the electorate--cutting spending, cutting taxes, increasing military spending and balancing the budget. The Contract is cloaked in Orwellian language ("The Taking Back Our Streets Act," "The American Dream Restoration Act") that demonstrates the GOP's reliance on demagoguery and simplistic propaganda techniques...
...billion deficit reduction package. As for failures, Clinton saw none. He listed the health care reform debacle as "proposed" legislation, and the middle class tax cut as "pending." Republicans responded by pointing out that the voters turned in their own report card in November, when they gave the GOP solid majorities in both the House and Senate. "People give the President no credit for his successes," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Carney, "because they see him as so political that they do not believe that he has principles he will not compromise. For the next two years, his dilemma...
Sixty-four House Democrats have now defied the House Democratic Caucus to endorse the Republican-backed balanced budget amendment. The GOP now has the 290 votes it needs to pass the bill. The Democratic support is conditional, though: the GOP would have to give up on a part of the legislation that would require a super majority (3/5) vote in both the House and Senate on any bill that raises income taxes. The amendment bill won't be voted on until work is finished on legislation blocking unfunded mandates -- something House Speaker Newt Gingrich has said is priority one. Work...