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...fiscal responsibility, immediately fired back. "They can't pass a budget over a veto," White House budget chief Alice Rivlin told reporters. Clinton has already alienated congressional Democrats by compromising so much so soon.TIME's Karen Tumultysays he moved too late to have any chance at influencing the GOP. "Clinton picked the moment when he had the least leverage in the process," she says. "By the time he released his budget, the House and Senate were well into their own negotiations...
...endured throat surgery,explained away an illegal housekeeper, slumped in the polls and seen campaign contributions roll in like molasses, butPete Wilson -- a master of hardball politics-- isn't giving up. The California governor told supporters this morning that he'llofficially announce his bid for the 1996 GOP presidential nominationnext Thursday on CNN's "Larry King Live." To make his intentions clear, Wilson's campaign office in downtown Sacramento unfurled banners saying "Pete Wilson for President." The determined governor dismissed recent political gossip suggesting that he would drop the idea of running: "There have been a lot of rumors...
American servicewomen and the spouses of servicemen will no longer be able to have abortions at overseas military hospitals, thanks to legislation passed in the House today. The bill amounts to an opening salvo in theGOP drive to eliminate government funding for abortionsand narrow access to the procedure. GOP Presidential hopeful Rep. Robert Dornan, (R-Calif.) led the charge as Republicans narrowly staved off a Democratic move to drop the ban from a 1996 defense spending bill. Ten abortions had been performed at the foreign bases since President Clinton's 1993 executive order ended...
...education or health services for the elderly. Other priorities:give tax cuts only to the middle class, not to upper-income Americans, protect services for poor children while cutting welfare, and target fraud and waste in federal programs to achieve savings. In an equally terse response for the GOP, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said that while he was encouraged by the President's newfound willingness to work with Congress to eliminate the deficit, he strongly disagreed with Clinton's determined effort to preserve federal programs that Republicans would eliminate.Jay Carney, TIME White House correspondent, reports: "The President made...
...Congressional pressure, the Labor Department has decided not to issue any rules onrepetitive strain injuries, the painful symptoms often attributed to workranging from chicken-plucking to word-processing. In their push to reduce government regulations, Republican lawmakers have argued againstsetting any RSI standards. Although President Clinton recently vetoed a GOP bill that included a provision blocking the creation of RSI rules, Labor Department officials said that the current climate on Capital Hill made it too difficult to set any meaningful regulations. Department figures say that a variety of musculoskeletal disorders afflict over 700,000 people each year, but many doctors...