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Bush’s proposal would cancel a GOP policy enacted in 1996, which required legal immigrants to live in the United States for at least 10 years before becoming eligible to collect the federal food aid. At the time, the plan was defended by Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), saying that, “Immigrants should come to the U.S. with their sleeves rolled up, ready to work, not with their hands out, ready to go on welfare.” However, Gingrich, who as speaker of the House championed the Welfare Reform Act that included the stricter eligibility...
...crack the occasional joke. On Thursday, when New York Senator Charles Schumer pressed him to add an extra $20 billion in emergency aid for the state, Bush did not hesitate. "You got it," he said, though it meant squelching the objections of conservative G.O.P. Senators Don Nickles, Phil Gramm and Pete Domenici...
...since Brooks Brothers introduced its red-and-gold rep tie has a movement so seduced the G.O.P. Conservative stalwarts Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Phil Gramm of Texas have decided to yield their Senate seats after 2002, and strategists fear a wave of retirement notices in the next few months. Possible departures include Senator Pete Domenici, a five-termer from New Mexico, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, the other Texas Senator and a new adoptive mom. Aides to Alaska's Frank Murkowski have let it be known their boss is weighing a run for Governor, meaning he could leave...
...caucus, some of its members tell me. They worry that some Republican senators who have been toying with the idea of retiring may decide to do so now, with the chance of their party retaking the chamber in 2002 looking bleaker. Senators who are good friends with Gramm say he was becoming increasingly bored and frustrated with being in the minority. Gramm, who had chaired the Senate Banking Committee, has had frosty relations with its new Democratic chairman, Sen. Paul Sarbanes. Gramm has been mentioned as a successor to the departing president at Texas A&M University, where the senator...
...Domenici adamantly insists he's not bowing out. He's raised $1.9 million for the next campaign and just had George W. Bush in his state for a fundraiser. But then again, Gramm, who has $4.4 million in his campaign war chest, adamantly insisted last month that he'd run for reelection...