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...House, the Republicans are eager to show they can be tough on Big Business too - James Greenwood, chairman of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee (a wholly owned subsidiary of Billy Tauzin's Energy and Commerce committee). Cheney nemesis Henry Waxman and John Dingell will be barking over GOP shoulders on behalf of the minority party...
Bush’s proposal would cancel a GOP policy enacted in 1996, which required legal immigrants to live in the United States for at least 10 years before becoming eligible to collect the federal food aid. At the time, the plan was defended by Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), saying that, “Immigrants should come to the U.S. with their sleeves rolled up, ready to work, not with their hands out, ready to go on welfare.” However, Gingrich, who as speaker of the House championed the Welfare Reform Act that included the stricter eligibility...
...sort of compromise" between GOP that Daschle is holding out for from Republican House, Senate and increasingly fervent (at least publicly) White House negotiators has apparently been largely achieved over the past week, with the exception of one sticking point: Providing health care for unemployed workers. Bush and the Republicans want to do it with tax credits, redeemable at private insurers. Daschle and the Democrats want to do it with established government programs COBRA and Medicare. The White House line is that COBRA and Medicare won't help people whose companies went bankrupt - Daschle's is that having...
Dukakis—who was Massachusetts’ chief executive from 1975-79 and again from 1983-91—mentioned Sen. Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) as one such GOP member...
...What a stimulus package will do, though, is make it look like Washington is trying to help. That's why Bush was willing in Orlando Tuesday to signal a GOP retreat on a retroactive (to 1986) repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax. It's why Senate Democrats - though they couldn't actually pass a bill - finally let go of their weeks-long fight to load up the package with antiterrorism spending and farm subsidies. After spending the better part of three months jostling for ideological goodies to present to constituents ahead of the 2002 elections, Congress may be finally...