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...pledges for continued pressure on Pyongyang to halt and ultimately dismantle its nuclear program. (The group has already endorsed the deal; Clinton aides are now negotiating how to enforce and pay for it over the next decade.) The president also brushed off queries about the effects of the GOP landslide on trade relations, promising an "open door" come what may at home. On Tuesday's agenda: U.S. officials expect endorsement of a statement calling for "open and free trade" throughout the region by the year 2020. BTW: U.S. trade with Asia, home to the world's fastest growing economies...
With President Clinton looking vulnerable after the Democrats' trouncing last week, a pack of emboldened GOP presidential hopefuls for '96 are already poking their heads out of the underbrush -- and revealing some internal party dissension. Today, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, an outspoken loyalist during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, announced the formation of an exploratory committee to test the waters, while Texas Sen. Phil Gramm said Sunday he was filing the paperwork necessary to begin his candidacy. Expect backbiting soon: Specter, a moderate, took a swipe at the religious right ("they advocate intolerance"), while Gramm, on NBC's "Meet...
Other glimpses into the pending GOP-controlled House: Gingrich invited Democrats to join a ''quality of life'' advisory committee that will rejigger House schedules so members can spend more time with their children. He also said he did not own a black Cadillac he was seen leaving in last week and would eschew the House Speaker's traditional privilege to be chauffeured in one.Post your opinion on theElection '94bulletin board...
Even though outgoing House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., is the favorite to slip a notch to Minority Leader, other Democrats are looking to move up. Today, longtime North Carolina Rep. Charlie Rose, who narrowly sidestepped a GOP near-sweep of his state, announced he'll challenge Gephardt for the Democrats' top House job. The Rose rationale: the Party faithful might be better off if they?re less faithful to President Clinton. "Our president is not our prime minister, and the (congressional) leaders are not his chief whips," said Rose, a moderate and longshot...
Even though most oddsmakers have called California's Senate race in favor of Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has temporarily halted the count of 500,000 absentee ballots that theoretically could throw the race to GOP challenger Michael Huffington. Judge Coleman Swart said he ordered the pause to try to corroborate a Republican radio talk show host's allegations that undocumented aliens and minors had sent in fraudulent ballots. Meanwhile in Maryland, the gubernatorial contest between Democrat Parris Glendening and Republican Ellen Sauerbrey is down to a snail's-pace absentee ballot count...