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...board spending cut of .42 percent, or about $1.5 billion. And since he recently rejected a more substantial one-percent cut, it was unclear whether President Clinton would be willing to sign off on the proposed cuts. In the course of persuading the President to bend, Speaker Dennis Hastert was obliged to run up quite a phone bill: After two calls to Turkey, where the Clintons are touring, Hastert reported the two sides had reached an agreement, pending the expected approval of Dick Gephardt. The Minority Leader will confer with Congressional Democrats, many of whom are staunch in their opposition...
...DENNIS HASTERT Nailed for $1,000-a-plate b'fast with lobbyists; loses HMO vote. Newt without the charm
...Bill Clinton. Inside the White House on Wednesday, sources told TIME, the President offered a critique of Bush's speech that included moments of grudging admiration and startled recognition. "He saw himself in Bush," says an adviser. "A whole lot of himself." On Capitol Hill, where House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other G.O.P. bosses were enraged by Bush's words, aides to minority leader Dick Gephardt told Hastert's people, "Get used to it. We've been putting up with this for seven years." Bush called Hastert on Thursday to make nice, sources told TIME; earlier, Bush strategist Karl Rove...
...very easy for him to demagogue." Not to mention that it?s pre-election maneuvering time - and voters are hopping mad at the HMOs. Will Clinton?s tune soothe the savage congressional beast? It might ?- after all, it was fear of getting outmaneuvered again by Clinton that pushed Speaker Hastert into his compromise effort. But Denny really can?t win either way. Give in, and it?s the leadership left holding the bag while Democrats declare victory. Push though the weaker bill, and Clinton and the Democrats blame the majority and ride the populist patients-rights sentiment...
...that?s already breaking the fiscal bank in a hundred other ways. These same GOPers, of course, have endorsed Bush in droves, so most of the reaction Thursday was trying not to sound hurt ("It's a free country... he has a right to speak out," sniffed Speaker Dennis Hastert). Bush backed them on the tax cut, and his aides insisted that he would back them in the future. But with Democrats scrambling to tie Bush to a Congress not nearly as charming as he is, the man who would be president is clearly putting his "compassionate" before his "conservative...