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...Republicans on the Senate panel, which reopened its hearings into the affair on Wednesday, today said they would issue 49 document subpoenas to the White House, regulatory agencies and potential witnesses with material on the Whitewater affair. Democrats derided the demands as "blanket subpoenas" and complained that what the GOP calls White House foot-dragging is actually trouble complying with such voluminous requests...
Tumulty reports that while House Republicans seem firmly behind the bill, the GOP leadership is having a harder time in the Senate. The reason? Many Senate members are only now learning the details of the Republican plan: "The reconciliation bill was only released to the full Senate this week. Senate moderates, like Olympia Snowe, are only now beginning to see the full range of the cuts, and they're uncomfortable with them...
...Senate Finance Committee this afternoon approved the GOP tax cut proposal that Democrats claim Republicans would slash Medicare to pay for. On an 11-9 vote that split along party lines, the package would reduce taxes by $245 billion over the next seven years. The bill includes the $500-per-child tax credit featured prominently in the GOP's Contract With America, while it sharply reduces the Clinton Administration's earned-income tax credit. The bill now heads to the Senate floor as part of the larger Republican budget bill that seeks to eliminate the deficit...
...weekend poll by the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth says Bob Dole leads the Republican presidential field in New Hampshire with 35 percent of GOP voters. But the real news is down in the single digits, where freshly-minted candidate Steve Forbes tied Lamar Alexander (7 percent) and edged ahead of Phil Gramm (6 percent). Asked how they would vote if Colin Powell ran as a Republican, 31 percent of those polled said they would support him, and the same number would consider...
...bloc of ethnic Catholics. Hispanics and blacks are strongly Democratic, whether Catholic or not, and so are Jews, but it's impossible to win without solid support from the 60 million American Catholics. F.D.R. floated to victory with an overwhelming Catholic margin, but Eisenhower made big inroads for the GOP. Since the Kennedy election, when Catholics gave the first Catholic President the White House through a lopsided 80 percent voting margin, they have become the classic swing voters. Clinton needs them." Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict