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...raise or donate $250,000 over the next two years to help retire the party's $14.5 million debt. The DNC has met all its money targets so far this year, and expects to raise at least $50 million in 1997. But while the flush and comparatively clean GOP continues to set the pace, the Democrats have had to stay ahead of Janet Reno's Untouchables; DNC officials say they will in the next two weeks return another $1.5 million in donations identified as coming from foreign or other suspect sources, bringing the refund total to more than $3 million...
...that flush government coffers brought to budget negotiations is ending as Democrats and Republicans heat up the fight over specifics of the deal. Although both houses overwhelmingly approved a final, nonbinding outline of an agreement to balance the budget by 2002, cracks in the consensus are appearing as the GOP tries to push through its version of welfare reform. Democrats were crying foul after two Republican-backed provisions passed the House Ways and Means human resources subcommittee. One would cut benefits to disabled noncitizens, while the other would deny minimum wage and workplace protections to some welfare recipients working...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Clinton Administration opposes the renewed GOP push to use medical savings accounts to bolster Medicare's finances, but at a meeting Tuesday with GOP leaders, President Clinton agreed to go along with a test run of the plan. As part of a proposal to reduce projected Medicare spending by 12 percent over five years, House Republicans wanted to establish accounts for all 38 million Medicare recipients, on the premise that patients faced with the opportunity to salt away money they don?t spend on medical care will spend less of it. Tuesday?s compromise: a test program...
...final vote as early as Thursday. A budget-busting House addendum to boost highway expenditures was rejected, along with a 43 cent increase in cigarette taxes proposed in the Senate to fund health care for the children of the working poor. The White House and GOP leaders lobbied vigorously against the defeated amendments, fearing they would puncture the hard-fought consensus reached after months of negotiations. House Transportation Committee chairman Bud Shuster, a major fan of highway construction, sought to boost the $125 billion budget agreement for highway improvement and construction by about 10 percent. The GOP's top brass...
...Republican's late-term abortion bill, the proposal fell three votes short in the Senate of the two-thirds majority needed to override an expected veto from President Clinton. The final tally was 64-36, with Democratic Minority Leader Tom Daschle and one other Democrat voting for the GOP measure. By the end of the day, TIME?s Karen Tumulty reports, the outlook for the bill that looked virtually veto-proof in the morning was darkening fast. The bill would outlaw the late-term procedure except when a woman is at risk of death and no other medical procedure...