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...budget cutting." Dole, who spoke earlier, said he would introduce legislation by week's end to convert Aid to Families with Dependent Children and some child care and job training programs into block grants. TIME's Sam Allis says Dole's plan drew enthusiastic support today from all 30 GOP governors. "Clinton tried to sweeten the pot significantly," Allis says. "But where he sees a federal role, Republicans still see entitlements...
...rule-making for one year.Part of a $79.4 billion bill that funds environmental, housing, veterans, and space programs for next year, the amendments would have halted regulations that keep drinking water free of arsenic, reduce toxic emissions for oil refineries, check pesticides in food, and control sewage overflows. GOP freshman Dave Macintosh, who chaired former Vice President Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness, tried to convince his congressional colleagues that the EPA is ideologically driven and that the targeted regulations "actually, in some ways, harm the environment and certainly cost us jobs." But opponents said the measures paralyze environmental protection...
...color-blind new era. The measure would forbid the federal government from considering race or sex in hiring and the awarding of contracts, and would also bar the government from requiring contractors to observe racial or sexual preferences. Dole conceded today that back in 1986 he was among 23 GOP Senators who dissuaded President Reagan from eliminating the programs, but now he says he never anticipated that the set-asides would "become a seemingly permanent fixture in our society...
...attorney, Clifford Sloan, discovered and called attention to scraps of paper in Vincent Foster's briefcase while searching Foster's office two days after he died, but was rebuffed by then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Foster attorney Michael Spafford told a congressional panel today. "This is troubling," responded GOP Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who is chairingthe Whitewater Hearings. Republicans have repeatedly questioned why it took the White House six days after Foster's death to discover the torn suicide note and another 30 hours to release it to the public. But that night, Spafford recalled, getting Foster's files...
Flanked by original sponsors ofMedicare, President Clinton commemorated the program's 30th birthday and vowed to a crowd of mostly elderly Americans, "I'm not going to let the government mess with your Medicare." Right on schedule,GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrichaccused the President of "a despicable strategy" to scare seniors: "He knows his numbers are false. He knows his anlaysis is false." Republican leaders challenged Clinton to present a plan to save Medicare within a week, though they gave themselves more time: "Republicans will have in 50 days a specific plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy," promised House Ways...