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...with her vote needed to determine the outcome. More than just the Clinton budget or her re-election bid was on the line. The entire Clinton presidency hung in the balance. If the budget failed to pass, President Clinton would have been relegated to the status of a lame duck...
...Representatives gave it a thumbs-up in a 288-146 vote. The treaty was approved over the objection of consumer advocates, some conservative opponents and a handful of incoming House members -- a group with a different composition, who objected to the vote in the waning days of the lame duck session. Now the treaty goes to the Senate where a much tougher fight is expected. There, it can be approved only after being granted a waiver from Senate rules that demand that any expenditures must be covered by revenues for 10 years. This waiver must get the nod from...
...smell of blood in the air has encouraged some Republicans to challenge the President even on an issue that their party has long supported. Clinton faces real trouble next week in the Senate, when the lame-duck Democratic Congress convenes to take up GATT. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is the laboriously crafted 123-nation agreement designed to lower tariff barriers. In his threatening letter demanding a delay of the vote, Senator Helms, who can make "free trade" sound like some weird practice he once saw in a Mapplethorpe photo, was trying to exploit the fact that Congress...
...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...
...would be a mistake to ignore this political sea change by ramming the GATT through Congress next week without much debate and with no opportunity to amend," Byrd said today. "These are matters that concern every American and should not be decided hurriedly, under the cloud of a lame-duck session." Under the fast-track rules for trade agreements -- which apply until the end of the year -- Senate debate is limited to 20 hours and the pact must be accepted or rejected without amendment. But President Clinton himself reaffirmed his commitment to GATT and rejected incoming Senate Majority Leader...