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...Kasich began showing House members under tight securi ty Thursday at a House Republican retreat in Leesburg, Va., includes elimination of three Cabinet departments (Education, Energy and Commerce), the General Services Administration and scores of government programs. It also calls for sharp cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "People have already started screaming and yelling," one person at the retreat told TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty, adding that House members have been asked to look at the list and "categorize the top three they...
...fished out, concern is rising that a vital Marine Sanctuary Act passed by Congress will never be fully implemented. It could preserve marine life, resurrect fishing and save tourism, but it depends on imposing-and funding-new regulations, and these may have been frozen by a sweeping congressional moratorium. Without the marine sanctuary, says Wayne Hoffman of the Florida Audubon Society, the future for the Keys is theme parks and casino boats...
...March 3, two years after the Canadian government itself imposed a moratorium on cod fishing in the Grand Banks--at enormous cost in lost fisheries revenue and a massive re-education and assistance plan--the government called for a 60-day moratorium on turbot fishing while it dealt with a challenge to the European Union quota. That quota was 3,400 tons per year for EU boats. In the first two weeks of 1995, EU boats caught over 7,000 tons of turbot. Predictably, the European Union ignored Canada and continued to fish just outside of the 200-mile limit...
...arebuff to their colleagues in the hard-charging House, all 100 senators rejected a powerful, one-year freeze on virtually all federal regulations and passed their own moderate bill instead. In lieu of the one-year moratorium House members voted for -- part of the "Contract With America" -- the Senate version would give Congress the power to block regulations on a case-by-case basis, then scuttle rules it doesn't like by majority vote within 45 days. The message was clear: slow down. "This is a classic example of the pattern we've seen this entire session," says TIME congressional...
...month grace period for small businesses to correct violations, waiving fines for firms that violate minor rules, and letting pharmaceutical companies change the way they make some drugs without requiring them to get permission from the government. The House has approved deeper cuts in existing regulations and a moratorium on putting new rules into place. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says the Republican legislation would block these Clinton reforms from taking effect...