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Rubin's self-cancellation was part of the complicated game over Kerrey-Portman, a bill that developed out of the bipartisan commission on IRS reform headed by Senate Democrat Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and House Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. More than once over the past year the White House has rushed forward with reform proposals to pre-empt the commission, which issued its report in June. All the same, by mid October, when the House Ways and Means Committee was wrapping up consideration of the bill, the proposal for an outside board of directors was still a red flag...
...That would open the way for nervous Democrats to get behind it in droves, maybe even enough to give it a veto-proof majority. It also threatened to leave Al Gore stranded as apologist for the taxman in the next Democratic presidential primaries, which potential rivals like Gephardt and Kerrey would be happy to see. That was enough for Clinton. On Tuesday he went public with his turnaround. On Wednesday the bill rumbled out of Ways and Means with a vote...
Clinton's less radical approach to the problem has opponents in his own party. The bill calling for an oversight board is the product of an IRS reform commission co-chaired by Portman and Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, who could challenge Gore for the Democratic nomination in 2000. In the House, another likely Gore rival, minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, this week will come out in favor of the Portman-Kerrey bill. Proponents are predicting that so many Democrats will abandon the Administration that the bill could pass the House, and maybe even the Senate, with enough...
...turns out the Agency is spending about $6 billion a year less than it did at the height of the Reagan era, but $12 billion more than during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980. Sen. Bob Kerrey, second banana on the Intelligence Committee, says that whatever happens, at least the CIA will be held accountable for its post-Cold War spending. Now that's using your intelligence...
...fund-raising calls he made from his office badly compromised his forthright image. Worse, they led to the March press conference where Mr. Clean became Uncle Wiggly. Though he's still the Democratic front runner for the year 2000, his troubles have encouraged rivals like Dick Gephardt and Bob Kerrey...