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...elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending cuts package that the Senate passed Thursday night. Senate Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, chosen to respond to Gingrich's speech Friday, added his own pre-emptive strike: "The Republicans will try to impress us with the sheer volume of legislation they've passed, largely...
...Senate voted 69 to 29 to give President Clinton a prerogative he and previous Chief Executives have long desired: a line-item veto over spending legislation. Opponents of the G.O.P.-sponsored measure argued that it gives away too much congressional power and may even be unconstitutional...
...only remaining "Contract With America" proposal to have President Clinton's avowed support, the line-item veto, is ready for quick Senate approval after days of partisan wrangling. (The House version passed last month.) This afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole dropped a plan to cut off further debate on the bill, saying he was satisfied that Democrats would quit stalling. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) made peace by paring 33 threatened Democratic amendments down to about a dozen...
...mention of that reviled institution (House members generally refer to it with scorn as the Other Body). "The Senate?" Waxman said. "A wonderful place. Very deliberative body. Thoughtful people." Fresh from defeating the balanced-budget amendment, Senate Democrats, backed by some Republicans, are preparing to dismantle the next item from the House G.O.P.'s contract: the line-item veto. Senate leaders hope to take it up this week, but the bill probably will have to be watered down before it even reaches the floor. Even when the Senate has passed a bill that the House has sent it, relations between...
...meaning of checks and balances. But even if they end up losing some of the big early battles, they insist that the war is only beginning. "Our term is two years, not 100 days," says G.O.P. freshman Roger Wicker of Mississippi. "The balanced-budget amendment and the line-item veto are means to an end, and that's federal-budget discipline. The real test of our victory will be where the deficit is at the end of that two-year period...