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...approximately 75 Cambridge residents, state legislators and officials at a town hall meeting, Kennedy said Massachusetts would be the victim of $20 to $30 billion in combined cuts, resulting in the direct loss of 70,000 jobs and over 165,000 secondary jobs if $452 billion in proposed GOP cuts go through...
Under the GOP's seven-year plan Medicare would be cut by $270 billion from President Clinton's proposal of $1.9 trillion. Republicans also propose slashing Medicaid $180 billion, leaving $900 billion in funding for the entitlement program, according to Kennedy...
Officials estimate that 45 million Americans are without any form of health coverage. That number would increase to 65 million if the GOP Medicare and Medicaid budgets pass, Restuccia said...
...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...
...task seems especially daunting to the workers on the Republican side, because not one of the GOP candidates has emerged as a clear favorite in next year's primary...