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...deceive," he said. "I had no reason to do so." Foster promised to lead a national campaign against teen pregnancies if confirmed. Does he have a chance? Even if the committee approves Foster, TIME correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said today that the GOP leadership would not bring the nomination to a floor vote "if there was any hint of filibuster." Senator Phil Gramm has already threatened a filibuster if the nomination is brought to the floor...
...weren't biting. At a hearing today, Committee chairman Bill Archer (R-Tx.) accused the White House of holding the $175 billion Medicare program "hostage" to its insistence on broader health reforms. But Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, testifying before the panel, fired back by suggesting the GOP was simply exaggerating Medicare's fiscal problems as an excuse to slash $300 billion by 2002 in order to fund tax cuts and balance the budget...
...abortion record, Clinton today declared the 61-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist a "pro-life, pro-choice doctor." Foster will testify Tuesday before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has threatened to block a full Senate vote on the controversial nomination, said the GOP will hammer at the Administration's belated disclosures that Foster had supervised hundreds of abortions. "This is about telling the truth," said Dole. "This is about the White House leveling with the American people and not letting it drip, drip, drip out as the American people find...
TheRepublican push to cut Medicarein order to balance the budget promises to flare into a full-fledged political dogfight this week,TIME Washington economics correspondent Suneel Ratanreports. On Tuesday, the GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee will fire the first shot, summoning Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, who signed a federal report stating that the Medicare system will go bust by 2002, and demanding timely congressional action. The Republicans plan to ask her what the Administration would do to prevent the collapse of the Medicare system. Ratan notes that slashing Medicare spending or raising taxes would seem...
House Republicans are contemplating a stunning$305 billion cut in projected Medicare spendingto help balance the budget, but that hasn't stopped Speaker Newt Gingrich from rolling the hot potato down Pennsyvlania Avenue. Today, he challenged the Clinton administration, which has accused the GOP of cutting Medicare togive tax breaks to the rich, to come up with its own proposal to reform the ailing Medicare system by May 15. "Our goal will be, by September, to bring in a bill that will save the Medicare system for a generation," Gingrich told a group of seniors. He added: "We are going...