Word: gop
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WASHINGTON: In Congress, Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Marty Meehan laid one more beating on the dead political horse that is campaign finance reform Thursday. And though the Shays-Meehan bill passed the House by a rousing 252-179 vote -- surviving repeated attempts by the GOP leadership to water it down -- the bill is going to die in the same place that its Senate equivalent did earlier this year: right at Trent Lott's feet...
WASHINGTON: The bullying of the attorney general continues. GOP hammer Dan Burton wants Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to tackle Clinton/Gore campaign finance allegations. Failing that, he's asked that the administration turn over two memos to Reno (one by FBI chief Louis Freeh and one by prosecutor Charles LaBella, both of whom agree with Burton). But Reno, says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon, isn't about to do either -- even if Burton's committee votes Thursday to hold her in contempt...
...While refusing to testify is hardly an option if Clinton wants to keep House Democrats in his corner, the President can reasonably expect to hold out for a while -- taking advantage of a momentary lapse of consensus in the GOP. Sunday saw Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the Senate Judiciary chair, fresh from battle with Bill Gates, warning darkly that Congress could be entertaining the Clinton matter soon if the commander in chief turns down the chance to testify. But as Hatch's fellow committee member and GOP luminary Arlen Specter told CNN, "I rechecked the Constitution...
WASHINGTON: From curing gays to partial-birth abortions the GOP's fiery right-wingers have little problem making themselves heard in an election season. But a new poll, commissioned the Republican Leadership Council, indicates that the GOP's sensible silent -- the fiscally conservative but socially hands-off moderates -- had better get their turn at the mic if the party expects to win elections. "If Republicans focus on moral issues there is a real chance we will lose the House of Representatives," poll taker Kieran Mahoney told reporters Monday...
...TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that the conventional wisdom about midterm elections -- that they are won by the turnout of party loyalists, i.e., the religious right -- will keep the GOP moderates relegated to their customary place in the wings (just ask private citizen William Weld). "Winning over moderate voters will be crucial in the presidential election," he says, "but in the midterms, you win by getting out your core voters...