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...Robert Dornan (R-Calif.), one of Congress' most outspoken conservatives, said he's considering a run for the GOP presidental nomination next year. The 61-year-old former actor and TV talk-show host is known for his incendiary speeches on the House floor, often after hours. Last week, he was forbidden to speak there for one day after he implied yet again that President Clinton was a traitor for dodging the draft and visiting Moscow while in graduate school. Said Dornan today: "Only God knows the outcome, but I'm ready for what may be the toughest mission...
Facing a nearly solid blockade of GOP opposition, President Clinton drew a line in the political sand and proposed increasing the minimum wage by 90 cents to $5.15 an hour over a two year period. In a Rose Garden ceremony, Clinton said that without the increase, the real buying power of the minimum wage would fall to a 40-year low next year. To counter this, Clinton proposed two hikes of 45 cents each over the current level of $4.25 an hour. But even as he released the plan, the Administration braced for what will surely be a bloody battle...
...billion through 2005. Democrats today called again on Republicans to detail where they'd cut spending to meet the zero-deficit goal by 2002; the Congressional Budget Office estimates that would take at least $1 trillion in spending cuts. "Clinton has identified about 65 percent of what the GOP is trying to do," saysTIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. "They can just use his cuts to go a major part of the way to balance their budget...
Senator Bob Packwood (R.-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said tonight that the GOP does not have the votes to pass thebalanced budget amendmentin the Senate. "I think the Democrats are going to succeed in killing it," Packwood said...
Twenty-two GOP House members wrote President Clinton demanding that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown resign because of questions about his personal finances. The letter cited concerns raised in the news media about Brown's business dealings with a company owned by a Democratic Party fund-raiser. Brown's attorney, Reid Weingarten, denounced the attack as "extremely partisan" focusing "on allegations that were completely investigated (by the Justice Department). He was completely exonerated...