Word: karens
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...recommendconfirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as surgeon general. The favorable vote included two committee Republicans: James Jeffords of Vermont and Bill Frist of Tennessee, a cardiologist who waited until minutes before the vote to publicly support the fellow Tennessean he has known for years. Now,TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumultynotes, Foster has to circumnavigate a promised filibuster by Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tx.), who has made the nominationan issue in his presidential campaign. With Frist's support, Foster now has 52 votes -- eight short of the number needed to block the move. But three "no" voters on the committee, including...
...future." The GOP package promises $958 billion in savings -- chiefly from Medicare, Medicaid and the elimination of 181 agencies and programs, from the Commerce Department to the Opera-Musical Theater Advisory Panel. Notably absent: $350 billion in tax cuts that more aggressive House Republicans approved last week. Still, Karen Tumulty, TIME congressional correspondent, says some tax breaks may surface after House and Senate negotiators have it out, in part because Dole has a warm spot for the idea, which would play well on the presidential campaign trail...
...Karen O'Neill Hillsboro, Texas AOL: KarenOOO...
Congressman John Kasich of Ohio, 43, author of the most radical U.S. budget plan in decades, talked last week with Time correspondent Karen Tumulty about the political climate that has suddenly made a balanced budget "a very doable deal...
...massive investigation that led to Wednesday's charges against Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood had a foundation hard as rock, Senate ethics committee members said today. Karen Tumulty, TIME congressional correspondent, reports that the committee staff spent 11,000 hours on the case, interviewed 254 witnesses and took 111 depositions -- theresults of which will be delivered to Packwood in a 16,000-page packageas soon as Monday. Though the Oregon Republican's alleged sexual advances have dominated headlines, Tumulty says charges of altering his personal diary transcripts during the preliminary probe could be most damaging. "It is easily provable...