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Republicans won eight seats and got a bonus ninth when Richard Shelby, Democrat of Alabama, switched parties, bringing the new G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Among the big-name Democrats felled by voters were Tennessee's Jim Sasser and Pennsylvania's Harris Wofford. A number of struggling Democrats survived...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin received assurances from President Clinton in Washington today that his country's $3 billion annual U.S. aid package -- the largest for any nation -- won't shrink under aGOP-controlled Congress. After the two met for 80 minutes today, Clinton said he would press for even...
The Clinton Administration's top guns today strongly urged Congress to pass thenew world trade treatythis year as top Republicans continued to grumble about it. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged Clinton to postpone a vote on GATT. If Clinton agrees...
With Israelis already concerned about Republican threats to slash foreign aid, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today downplayed fears that GOP firebrand Sen. Jesse Helms -- in 60 days chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- might go after the historic U.S.-Israel relationship. The source: Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth...
Though the Democrats have staged a last-minute resurgence in the polls, Republicans still stand a good chance of gaining seven seats in the Senate, which would give them a majority there for the first time since 1986. Not only would Bob Dole become majority leader, but committee chairmanships would...