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...stump toremind America that the chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending cuts package that the Senate passed Thursday night. Senate Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, chosen to respond...
...several major"Contract With America" reformsinto a giant package this summer, making it difficult for President Clinton to veto any single set of reforms. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) today told a small group of reporters that the Senate GOP would combine its upcoming versions of tax cuts, spending cuts, welfare reform and other initiatives into a "reconciliation bill" by August or September. Tumulty says the claim -- so far unsubstantiated by GOP leaders -- is probably on target: theGOP needs a fast-track planto see the "Contract" become law this year...
...House Republicans going to celebrate the triumphant end of their first "100 days" (actual count: 91 days) in power? Still flushed from Wednesday's tax-cut win , House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other GOP luminaries gathered in a Washington hotel ballroom this evening for a pull-out-the-stops jubilee entitled "Promises Made, Promises Kept." First on the bill,TIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleighreports: an R&B band called (believe it or not) the Red Hot Swinging Johnsons...
...writing his autobiography in September. "I've checked the Constitution very carefully, and you do not have to belong to a political party," the popular former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman told an audience of 3,200 people at Salem State College Tuesday night. Can he afford to wait? GOP primary contenders are racing to compete now for campaign money and talented staffers. But as an indy,TIME political contributor Laurence Barrettsays, Powell would have little trouble getting on the ballot much later. One thing's sure - it can't hurt book sales.Campaign '96 File
Former Buffalo Bills quarterback, congressman and Bush Administration housing secretary Jack Kemp today was tapped by the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill to head a feasibility study of broad GOP proposals to restructure the federal income tax system. The supply-sider will chair a commission of nine, four appointed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and four by Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, that will study competing Republican proposals.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramersays Dole may be trying to draw support from Kemp's followers for the1996 presidential race. "Kemp is a very valuable commodity in the party," says Kramer. "Anybody...