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...North Carolina Republican's snipe Monday that President Clinton had "better have a bodyguard" if he visited bases in Helms' state is playing badly throughout military ranks,TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays. Predictably, Democrats blasted Helms -- White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta last night suggested the GOP rethink whether someone with such "extreme views" should chair such a powerful committee -- but many of the generals and G.I.s Helms claimed to speak for were also shocked. "Even those who have great disdain for Clinton now have disdain for Helms," say Thompson, who canvassed the military top-to-bottom. "One, they...
...public policy, if an April interview he gave a Washington, D.C. paper that covers gay issues still holds water. In Friday's edition of The Washington Blade, the Georgia Republican said, "I think that on most things most days, the vast majority of practicing homosexuals are good citizens." The GOP's position on homosexuality, he said, "should be toleration . . . It should not be promotion and it should not be condemnation. I don't want to see police in the men's room, which we had when I was a child, and I don't want to see trying to educate...
Labor Secretary Robert Reich -- shocking most of the Administration -- dared both Democrats and Republicans to match the GOP's Monday proposal to curtail welfare benefits with drastic cuts in "corporate welfare," his term for billions of dollars inbusiness tax credits and subsidies. The address to the moderate Democratic Leadership Council had originally been billed as the last of Reich's triptych on "the anxious middle class." But Reich, apparently reacting to the election results and the new GOP attack on welfare policy, delivered a tirade against what he identified as $225 billion in tax benefits for particular industries. "Since...
Washington's new power couple, Kansas Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and Georgia Rep. Newt Gingrich, outlined the first priority of their legislative agenda today: They promised an audience of GOP governors that they would push for relaxing federal controls on states as soon as possible. Dole told the Republican Governors Association that the first bill brought to the Senate floor next year would curb federal initiatives that require state financing. "We're going to change the direction of America for the right reason -- it needs to be changed," Dole said. His House counterpart promised the governors that he would...
Journalists had many colorful options for describing last week's GOP victories...