Word: gop
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...reasons are not yet clear, for McConnell and Lott, the motive was campaign-finance reform ? or, rather, their opposition to it. The two Republicans want to get an Ohio law professor ? who thinks that bans on "soft money" are a violation of free speech ? appointed to fill a GOP vacancy on the board of the Federal Election Commission. Bill Clinton doesn?t want that, and so the U.S.? star Balkan negotiator is, once again, stymied in his yearlong attempt to take his seat at the U.N. (His nomination was put on hold during an eight-month federal ethics investigation that...
...shoring up will probably have to wait for a new president and Congress." Meanwhile, of course, those "little things" will go a long way toward wooing seniors over to the Democratic half of the voting booth in 2000. They?ll also be very hard for Republicans to resist. "The GOP is in serious disarray right now," says Branegan. "They shot themselves in the foot on guns and Kosovo, and they don?t want to hand the Democrats another issue for 2000." When it comes to touchy-feely stuff like Grandma and her heart pills, Clinton has it all over them...
...much disarray, and the clamor for broad cuts is still a lot louder on the Hill than it is with voters." Gun control is another possibility -- though Clinton is just as happy if that one pays off for Gore and the Democrats (Hillary included) next November. Likeliest scenario: The GOP, worried about 2000, gives a little and promises a lot. And Clinton keeps on talking -- Friday afternoon?s droning hour-plus press conference was just an appetizer -- and Al Gore heads into the imminent primaries with a very long wish list, courtesy of his frustrated boss...
Never mind that Orrin Hatch is the twelfth GOP presidential candidate in a primary race that?s practically already been won. That no one outside of Utah seems to like him very much. That he doesn?t have a chance. Sometimes, a man?s just gotta run. "Hatch has been ruminating about this for a long, long time," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "He?s been in the Senate 23 years. He?s 65 years old. If he was ever going to run, he might as well do it now." Hatch made his unofficial announcement Tuesday in his favorite...
...this time, says Carney. "I just don?t see where he fits in. He?s running as a maverick -- a guy who can work with Democrats -- but Bush, and even McCain, is doing that too," he says. "He?s a social conservative, but so is the rest of the GOP field." And at this late date, in this front-loaded election cycle, there may not be a dollar left for him outside of Utah. But Utah law allows him to try this and still run for reelection for his Senate seat -- an accommodation engineered by Hatch?s own supporters...