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House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt today tried to end-run the GOP tax-cut fervor by proposing that four-fifths of Americans in lower income groups pay a flat tax of between 10 and 11 percent. The wealthiest Americans under the Gephardt proposal would pay a higher rate, not yet specified. Gephardt floated the plan in testimony before the House and Ways Mean Committee. He also attacked the alternative GOP flat-tax plan, pushed by House Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-Texas), as "a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the wealthiest Americans" because it exempts income...
...Fowler, chairman. The scheme is similar to one adopted by the Republicans under President Ronald Reagan. Whoever the Democratic leaders turn out to be -- a deal should be announced this Thursday -- they have their work cut out: The DNC faces a $4 million debt, an angry electorate and a GOP that seems poised to keep itself at the center of any legislative efforts...
...GOP leaders advanced two small, but significant steps closer to fulfilling theirlegislative agendatoday, as two Senate committees approved bills that would require the federal government to fund new mandates imposed on the states. The Governmental Affairs and Budget committees passed the Unfunded Mandate Reform Act. The bill, said Senator William Roth of Delaware, chairman of the Governmental Affairs panel, would end the "steady stream of dictates from Washington on how to spend locally raised tax dollars." The full Senate is expected to take up the legislation on Wednesday, while the House will turn to the issue next week. The legislation...
...GOP welfare reform proposal announced last Friday is causing an uproar in the National Governors Association. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, the Democratic chairman of the NGA, today lashed out at Republican members for making a deal with the Congressional members of their own party on welfare reform. The GOP proposal would cut several federal programs and give cash directly to states. Stephanie Carter, a Dean spokeswoman, told TIME Daily that Dean objected most strenuously to the fact that the Republican delegation had "signed off on a platform separate and on its own." A spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association agreed...
...after theRepublicans took charge in both housesof Congress, President Clinton and GOP leaders met to look for ways to cooperate in the coming legislative season. Speaker Newt Gingrich characterized the White House session as "a very, very positive meeting overall" and warned reporters "not to rush off and immediately try to find some way to get a catfight started." For his part, Clinton said he would be glad to sign the first piece of legislation now racing through Congress: one that will force the body to obey the same rules that apply to private businesses. "My job is to work...