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Vice President Gore launched a new Administration charge today against GOP plans to balance the budget by 2002, saying Republicans would face a "rendezvous with reality" when voters come to understand the impact of proposed cuts in Medicare and scores of other programs. "I predict they're going to experience a number of conversions within their ranks," he said, "especially among those running for re-election next year." House Speaker Newt Gingrich, noting that Gore offered no alternative budget-balancing plan, accused the White House of "taking a walk" on the issue...
President Clinton today demanded immediate congressional action on his anti-terrorism package, despite GOP warnings that a controversial FBI promotion could stall it. "It needs to pass and pass now," Clinton said. "Nothing can justify turning this bill into a political football." He was referring to a suggestion made Sunday by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that Attorney General Janet Reno's nomination of Larry Potts as FBI deputy director "will further slow down the terrorist legislation and will mean even greater concern over civil liberties, which I don't think is inappropriate." Potts oversaw the 1993 siege at theBranch Davidian...
Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) blinked today, announcing that Republicans want to create a bipartisan congressional commission to work out the details of theirpolitically-sensitive plan to balance the budgetwithin seven years. The tactic, announced a day before House and Senate GOP leaders are due to unveil their respective budget cut proposals, is an attempt to draw Democrats into a potentially-explosive budget process that may include up to$300 million in Medicare cuts. Also today, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, advocated raising the eligibility age for Medicare...
...GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole's arsenal of advisers long includedformer president Richard Nixon. Before the late president died last year, he left Dole a wealth of advice onhow to make it to the White House. Dole gave aletter from Nixondetailing his strategic advice to the Los Angeles Times, which reported it today. To be nominated, Nixon wrote, "you have torun as far as you can to the rightbecause that's where 40 percent of the people who decide the nomination are. And to get elected, you have to run as fast as you can back to the middle because...
TIME has learned that House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-Ohio) is circulating documents in GOP circles that dramatically fulfill his promises of radical federal budget cuts. The package, which Kasich began showing House members under tight security Thursday at a House Republican retreat in Leesburg, Va., includes elimination of three Cabinet departments (Education, Energy and Commerce), the General Services Administration and scores of government programs. It also calls for sharp cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "People have already started screaming...