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...extended list of all $100,000-plus supporters. He added: "Ready to start overnights right away -- give me the top 10 list back, along with the 100." Four of the ten eventually spent the night at the White House. The memos were exchanged in a flurry after the GOP?s 1994 midterm election sweep left Democrats uncertain about their future and Clinton defending his relevancy in the national media, a time when replenishing the party campaign war chest was a top priority. According to a list released Thursday, at least 938 people have spent have spent a night...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The razor-thin margin opposing a balanced budget amendment in the Senate got a lot thinner Tuesday when Louisiana freshman Democrat Mary Landrieu announced she would vote with the GOP on the bill despite some reservations about its language. With Landrieu's qualified support, the Republican leadership is just one vote shy of the needed two-thirds supermajority. With all 55 Republicans and 11 Democrats supporting the measure, the move means that freshman Senator Robert Torricelli will cast the deciding ballot in a vote that could come as early as next Friday. The New Jersey Democrat is being...
...trillion 1998 budget package Thursday containing much that even Republicans will find to their liking. The White House maintains that it is setting a course that will produce not only a balanced budget, but a modest surplus by the year 2002. Taking its cue from years of GOP initiatives, the budget promises $98.4 billion in middle-class tax cuts, mostly in the form of tax credits. Republicans and professional number-crunchers, though, reacted cautiously to Clinton's package, pointing out that it rests on rosy assumptions. What's more, most of the President's spending cuts won't kick...
...Anthony Lake, President Clinton's nominee for CIA director, while the Justice Department completes separate investigations into Lake's investments and testimony before Congress. In contrast to other Clinton nominees who have breezed through confirmation proceedings, Lake, along with Labor nominee Alexis Herman, has been put under the GOP spotlight. "My read on this is that the Republicans will shake them up, but they probably will pass them," says TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "Majority Leader Trent Lott says he just wants to be thorough." The probe into Lake's investments focuses on several energy stocks he owned while...
...Anthony Lake, President Clinton's nominee for CIA director, while the Justice Department completes separate investigations into Lake's investments and testimony before Congress. In contrast to other Clinton nominees who have breezed through confirmation proceedings, Lake, along with Labor nominee Alexis Herman, has been put under the GOP spotlight. "My read on this is that the Republicans will shake them up, but they probably will pass them," says TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "Majority Leader Trent Lott says he just wants to be thorough." The probe into Lake's investments focuses on several energy stocks he owned while...