Word: gop
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...GOP plots its Capitol Hill revolution,the opposition it must contend with is taking shape: South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle today claimed enough votes to prevail in his bid to become Senate minority leader over hopeful Chris Dodd of Connecticut. Daschle said a commitment by Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin gave him the 24th vote needed from a total of 47 Democrats when the vote is tallied Friday. Dodd refused to concede. "We're absolutely in the race," said his spokesman. The impact of a Daschle victory is unclear: Both are centrists, although Dodd has, historically, been more outspoken.In the House...
...North Carolina Republican's snipe Monday that President Clinton had "better have a bodyguard" if he visited bases in Helms' state is playing badly throughout military ranks,TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays. Predictably, Democrats blasted Helms -- White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta last night suggested the GOP rethink whether someone with such "extreme views" should chair such a powerful committee -- but many of the generals and G.I.s Helms claimed to speak for were also shocked. "Even those who have great disdain for Clinton now have disdain for Helms," say Thompson, who canvassed the military top-to-bottom. "One, they...
...public policy, if an April interview he gave a Washington, D.C. paper that covers gay issues still holds water. In Friday's edition of The Washington Blade, the Georgia Republican said, "I think that on most things most days, the vast majority of practicing homosexuals are good citizens." The GOP's position on homosexuality, he said, "should be toleration . . . It should not be promotion and it should not be condemnation. I don't want to see police in the men's room, which we had when I was a child, and I don't want to see trying to educate...
...York Gov. George Pataki-- fodder for talk show barbs ever since Pataki refused to return the mayor's congratulatory phone call -- may be on the mend, at least on the public relations level. The governor-elect last night finally agreed to meet one-on-one with Giuliani, who broke GOP ranks to endorse Democratic incumbent Gov. Mario Cuomo this fall. The ice-breaker: Pataki relented on tight fiscal proposals affecting the city's public employees and schools. The standoff had caught the notice ofDavid Letterman, who listed as one of his "top 10 signs your new governor is nuts...
Washington's new power couple, Kansas Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich, outlined the first priority of their legislative agenda today: They promised an audience of GOP governors that they would push for relaxing federal controls on states as soon as possible. Dole told the Republican Governors Association that the first bill brought to the Senate floor next year would curb federal initiatives that require state financing. "We're going to change the direction of America for the right reason -- it needs to be changed," Dole said. His House counterpart promised the governors that he would...