Word: gop
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Perhaps even more stunning than the Republican landslide in the November elections is the GOP's claim to be the party of change. Long a reactionary bastion, the Republican party has been associated with balking at change in areas such as civil rights, the environment and social reform. Now, the new majority party is trumpeting the causes previously endorsed by liberals--change, progress, new ideals--and presenting the Contract With America as proof of its sincerity...
...Clinton Administration official warned a Senate subcommittee today that the GOP plans to slash the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development should be reconsidered, since the agency is committed to substantial long-term contracts that cannot easily be dropped. The panel was reviewing $800 million in cuts over five years proposed by Secretary Henry Cisneros. Many Republican Senators say the cuts aren't deep enough. TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan notes that this is a story likely to be repeated several times in the next few weeks as the GOP faces the reality that...
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt today tried to end-run the GOP tax-cut fervor by proposing that four-fifths of Americans in lower income groups pay a flat tax of between 10 and 11 percent. The wealthiest Americans under the Gephardt proposal would pay a higher rate, not yet specified. Gephardt floated the plan in testimony before the House and Ways Mean Committee. He also attacked the alternative GOP flat-tax plan, pushed by House Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-Texas), as "a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest Americans" because it exempts income...
...Fowler, chairman. The scheme is similar to one adopted by the Republicans under President Ronald Reagan. Whoever the Democratic leaders turn out to be -- a deal should be announced this Thursday -- they have their work cut out: The DNC faces a $4 million debt, an angry electorate and a GOP that seems poised to keep itself at the center of any legislative efforts...
...GOP welfare reform proposal announced last Friday is causing an uproar in the National Governors Association. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, the Democratic chairman of the NGA, today lashed out at Republican members for making a deal with the Congressional members of their own party on welfare reform. The GOP proposal would cut several federal programs and give cash directly to states. Stephanie Carter, a Dean spokeswoman, told TIME Daily that Dean objected most strenuously to the fact that the Republican delegation had "signed off on a platform separate and on its own." A spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association agreed...