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Trying to come up with $1 trillion in spending cuts by 2002, House GOP members won a procedural vote to send $17 billion in housing aid, school and other spending cuts to the floor. The package is expected to win passage Thursday by a similar margin. (The Senate is preparing its own version now.) Today's GOP victory saw its share of rhetorical lobs: Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) called the cuts "mean-spirited" and "morally wrong"; House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) decried "the same old Chicken Little-ism: the sky is falling, liberals...
...much as $275 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, which are now projected to cost $1.82 trillion by the decade's end. Also included: a scheme to shrink cost-of-living increases to Social Security recipients. The report, in a barb at opponents who demanded to know where the GOP cuts would fall, challenged Democrats "to detail their alternatives, or to explain what taxes they would raise, where they would cut Social Security or why their believe the federal budget should not be balanced...
...hypocrites of the religious right do not advocate freedom and liberation of the oppressed--they are the shock troops of cultural repression. These are the people that Pat Buchanan was appealing to at the 1992 GOP convention when he called for a "cultural war." They bristle at multicultural education, confuse patriotism with xenophobia and believe that morality can be legally enforced. They tremble with rage when a progressive woman like Hillary Clinton wields authority...
Senate Republicans will not strip veteran Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) of his powerful Appropriations Committee chairmanship. Some GOP Senators were calling for Hatfield's head as retaliation for his vote against thebalanced budget amendment. TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says a generational split surfaced in a tense, closed meeting this afternoon, with Hatfield's longtime colleagues opposing the harsh punishment. A handful of Hatfield opponents, notably GOP Senate freshmen Connie Mack of Florida and Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, were outnumbered. But Tumulty says their anger touched off a sharp debate on how to punish wayward party leaders...
...campaign. The New York senator's move is expected to trigger a wave of endorsements for Dole by Gov. George Pataki and other key Republicans in the state. That may give the Senate majority leader a virtual lock on the critically-important New York primary that will deliver 102 GOP delegates one year from today. "Dole has this near obsession with recruiting governors," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. In a recent TIME interview, she adds, Dole said: "Richard Nixon used to say he'd trade you 10 senators for one governor, because the governors are on the ground...