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Joined by many Democrats, including some liberals, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives approved a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 300 to 132, comfortably exceeding the two-thirds majority needed. The measure, which is stripped of a controversial provision that would have required...
Even from its first giddy day in power, the House leadership was smelling trouble. On Jan. 4, when majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas did a head count of support for the balanced-budget amendment, he came up as many as 30 votes short. Depending on how the amendment was...
State of the Union President Clinton delivered an 81-minute State of the Union address--a record breaker in terms of long-windedness. In general, the speech seemed to be better received by the public, according to polls, than it was by pundits, who accused the President of splitting too...
No one ever said governing would be easy. Two weeks into the new Congress, fissures began to appear in the once seemingly rock-solid Republican majority in the House as members started squabbling over just how limiting term limits should be. Fault lines also became apparent regarding the proposed balanced...
The dissonance between the people and their leaders on term limits is deafening. Limit proposals have passed overwhelmingly in every state in which they have been on the ballot (22 so far), but a dozen term-limit bills were introduced in the past Congress and none was debated, even at...