Word: gop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...theGOP "Contract With America."With a tax vote slated for Wednesday, Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) predicted passage of a $500-per-child tax credit for families making up to $200,000 a year. But some lawmakers warned that the compromise may not hold because a number of GOP holdouts still want to scale back the tax credit, while another group wants to increase the contributions that federal workers make into their own retirement funds. "We don't yet have 218 votes lined up, but we're making good progress," said Tony Blankley, spokesman for House Speaker Newt Gingrich...
...environmental regulations, EPA head Carol Browner warned local officials late Wednesday that one in 10 Americans drinks from a water system that violates public health standards. "We cannot take the safety of our drinking water for granted," Browner told a group of local officials. "More remains to be done." GOP House members want to do less. Hours earlier, a subcommittee voted to gut the long-sacred Clean Water Act, which protects lakes, rivers and streams from pollution.TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompsonnotes that Browner, whom Republicans are now attacking for running a "partisan" EPA, is losing the fight. The water overhaul...
...Arlen Specter(R-Pa.), a moderate who supports abortion rights, launched his long-shot bid for the1996 GOP presidential nominationby warning that Republicans would squander an historic chance to control both Congress and the White House if they abandoned the political center. "Let me say this as plainly as I can," Specter, 65, said in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "Neither this nation, nor this party, can afford a Republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up by re-electing a president of the incompetent left." Is he right? In an interview...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, preparing for hisfirst major "Contract With America" defeatin a term limits vote tonight, blamed Democrats who are refusing to help a divided GOP pass the measure. "Give us 60 more Republicans next year, and we'll passterm limits," Gingrich said. Even as he spoke, prominent Republican opponents of the measure were growing derisive. "If this were a trial, I'd call as my first witnesses the Founding Fathers, who directly and unanimously rejected term limits," Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) told the floor. Democrats, meanwhile, introduced an even tougher version -- knowing the GOP would...
...percent or less, while cutting Medicaid growth from 10 percent to 5 percent. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said a "reasonable cap" on Medicaid growth would be "well below 8 percent" if the program isturned over to the states, an idea being discussed with governors.TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompsonsays the GOP is hoping to slow down the spending by enticing new Medicare and Medicaid patients to enroll in managed care plans...