Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right depends on continued economic good times and the fiscal discipline of future governments -? neither one of which you ought to be betting the farm on -? and now both sides are headed home for a one-month recess to make their case. TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir. "Democrats will make the argument that?s been successful with their base thus far -- Clinton is saving Medicare and paying down the debt, and Republicans are merely helping the rich." They?ve got a point: According to the Treasury Department, the middle...
...maybe ? just maybe ? some of this begging-to-be-vetoed bill might survive the summer. "The fact that it has so many of the earmarks of William Roth?s (R-Del) Senate version means there is some possibility of splitting the difference with Clinton," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "But first they?re going to go home and see if they can sell it, and get some leverage from the voters...
...luck to be up against a GOP plan whose sheer size makes his spending programs look like the lesser of two fiscal evils. "The Republican plan assumes that government spending will increase at no more than the inflation rate for the next 10 years," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Almost no one believes that will actually happen." Meanwhile, Clinton pitches his combination platter as something future leaders won?t be able to screw up. Now that?s believable...
...Reported by Jay Branegan and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...vote that got ?- but didn?t need ?- support from four Democrats, Senate Republicans passed their ten-year, $792 billion plan to give Americans an annual April dividend on their surplus. They don?t have a bill that'll go anywhere -? President Clinton, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "will veto anything this big" -? but Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and his House counterpart, Speaker Denny Hastert, have their defining issue. "We want to cut taxes and the President wants to spend it," Lott said after the vote. "That's what the fighting is all about." Well, that?s what...