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...because of procedural errors, the item inadvertently was left off that night's agenda, committee members said...
...tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET. TIME White House correspondent James Carney says Clinton's effort suggests he'll embrace some of the centrist issues put forth Monday in the DLC's 10-point alternative to the House Republican "Contract with America." The DLC's plan includes a line-item veto, deep budget cuts and big changes in welfare. White House officials tell TIME's Carney that Clinton will lay out his own initiatives in a major speech later this month -- rather than early next year, a more traditional time for such presidential pronouncements. Why? New GOP House Speaker Gingrich...
...line-item veto provision that will permit the President to "single out wasteful spending in bills passed by Congress...
President Clinton and thenewly empowered GOP leadersof the House and Senate met today pledging cooperation. House Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich called the meeting "superb." Gingrich said the trio agreed on some matters -- easing Washington's burden on states and enactment of the line-item veto, for instance -- but avoided tougher issues like health care and taxes. "I hope and believe we can cooperate with the new Congress," Clinton said. "But cooperation for me cannot mean abandoning principle, abandoning the hard work we have already accomplished together in our fight to restore the economy, our fight against crime."Post your...
...globe at an Asian economic summit in Indonesia, President Clinton wasn't neglecting domestic politics. In the wake of sweeping Republican victories in this month's elections, the President again let it be known that he hoped to cooperate with the G.O.P. bipartisan measures like welfare reform, the line-item veto and tax and spending cuts. Amid signs of Republican chafing in the Senate, he once more called on Hill leaders to approve the gatt treaty at the post-Thanksgiving lame-duck session of Congress...