Word: gop
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BLOCK TAX HIKES, HILL FUNDING: House GOP members capped three days ofrapid-fire proposalsto reduce the size, influence and purse of the Congress today with a Republican vote to require a supermajority of three-fifths of the House to approve almost any personal and corporate income tax hikes. (The idea, which goes to the House floor Jan. 4, makes it much harder to raise taxes than under the current 51 percent vote required.) The tax reform package, a key element of the party's 10-point "Contract with America," also bans retroactive tax increases and allows leeway only for revenue...
Among the GOP's cost-cutting votes today: a ban on "commemorative" declarations like National Good Teen Days and National Domestic Violence Awareness Month -- measures it says eats about $300,000 a year. House Speaker-elect Newt Gingrich called the commemoratives a "feel-good" function of publicity-seeking Democrats: "What we are saying to people is we believe a smaller government with less of a burden, with less intrusion in your life, will make you feel even better...
...line-item veto, deep budget cuts and big changes in welfare. White House officials tell TIME's Carney that Clinton will lay out his own initiatives in a major speech later this month -- rather than early next year, a more traditional time for such presidential pronouncements. Why? New GOP House Speaker Gingrich "will be active in early January, and they're worried that by the time Clinton speaks, it'll be an afterthought," Carney says...
House Republican members moved Tuesday to cut off all funds for 28 Congressional alliances, including the Congressional Black Caucus. The GOP's move must be approved by the Committee on House Oversight and will also terminate the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. "I'm an equal opportunity terminator," said Rep. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today. Under the plan approved at a meeting of House Republican members, the caucuses could continue to exist if they are funded directly by the office budgets of the individual members. The action would save...
...build a "contract" with moderate, middle class Democrats, the party's leading centrist group released their alternative to the GOP's congressional battle plan, vowing "hand-to-hand combat" to capture the legislative and political agenda. The Democratic Leadership Council's blueprint is obviously akin to the GOP "Contract with America," calling for deep budget cuts and a nearly complete reworking of federal housing and job training programs. But it also calls for health care reform and money for job training. And it cuts $75 billion in annual federal subsidies to agriculture, aerospace companies, the oil and gas industry...