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...going to beat Bill Clinton by being moderate." --Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), responding to a question at the debate between GOP presidential candidates in Columbia, S. C., was quoted in the Boston Globe...
...GOP measures were not exactly brimming with compromises. In addition to cutting the EPA budget by 21 percent, federal housing programs by 21 percent and arts funding by roughly 40 percent, they would have eliminated the President's Americorps service program entirely, and replaced his high-profile promise to hire 100,000 new police officers with block grants...
...which may help close the gap between congressional Republicans and the White House. "It's not clear how much further Clinton can go," Carney says. "His budget is increasingly alienating congressional Democrats, and the President is fast approaching the familiar territory where he is satisfying nobody. But politically, the GOP, and especially the freshmen, have the most to lose if negotiations fail and they can't deliver on their big promise -- a balanced budget...
...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...