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...seven years. Clinton agreed revise his initial goal of balancing the budget in seven to 10 years to a seven-year timetable as a condition of resolving the temporary-spending deadlock that caused a partial government shutdown last month. The Clinton plan calls for smaller tax cuts than the GOP version, and will also ask for smaller spending increases on domestic programs than his previous budget includes. On Medicaid and Medicare, Clinton has not changed his plans. His budget seeks cuts of $124 billion from Medicare and $54 billion from Medicaid, far less than the GOP-requested cuts...
After stumbling badly in 1994 and spending much of 1995 fading from the public view in the face of the GOP revolution, he was given little chance of attaining this rare prize; indeed, only 14 out of 42 presidents have gained reelection...
There may be a Republican primary contest in New York after all. A federal judge has struck down GOP rules for New York's presidential primary on the ground that they set unfair barriers to would-be candidates. (To reach the ballot, each must collect tens of thousands of signatures from registered Republicans in all 31 state districts.) Under the order by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman, the Party must allow candidates on the Republican ballot if they collect 1.41 percent from each district (about 150 signatures), more in line with the Democrats' requirements. TIME's Laurence Barrett says Korman...
...endorsement to Dole. "I consider him as sort of the third senator from Wisconsin for all his support of agriculture, not only in Wisconsin but in the Midwest," Thompson said. The three-time Wisconsin governor became the 16th of 31 Republican governors to endorse Dole, and several other GOP governors are reportedly close to backing him, including Mississippi's Kirk Fordice. Just three governors have endorsed other candidates: George W. Bush of Texas and Fife Symington of Arizona have pledged to support Phil Gramm, while Tennessee governor Don Sundquist has endorsed Lamar Alexander...
Police and political insiders remain stumped after the Watergate-style burglary Saturday at the Manhattan campaign headquarters of GOP presidential hopeful Malcolm "Steve" Forbes. "We're treating it as a typical break-in, a regrettable fact of urban life," Forbes campaign spokeswoman Gretchen Morgenson assured the Associated Press. "Until we know otherwise, that's what we're going to assume it is." There is ample fodder for conspiracy theorists nonetheless. The perpetrators removed a fax machine and a copying machine, left a computer and printer on and rifled through computer disks with lists of prospective Forbes supporters...