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Kennedy's Republican successor as chair atLabor and Human Resources, Sen. Nancy L. Kassebaum(R-Kan.) supports financial assistance for highereducation but is also aware of the immensepressure to balance the budget, says Mike Horak,her spokesperson...
Republican hostility towards the Public Broadcasting system is hardly new; both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan's attempts to cripple it were thwarted by Congress in the '70s and '80s. And two years ago, Senator Bob Dole (R-Kan.) temporarily blocked funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, claiming that its programs had "a liberal bias...
...including the Congressional Black Caucus. The GOP's move must be approved by the Committee on House Oversight and will also terminate the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. "I'm an equal opportunity terminator," said Rep. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today. Under the plan approved at a meeting of House Republican members, the caucuses could continue to exist if they are funded directly by the office budgets of the individual members. The action would save $5 million and mean a reduction of 96 taxpayer-paid caucus staff members...
...might argue for sending U.S. troops to the Mideast to monitor a possible Israeli-Syrian peace accord in the disputed Golan Heights, but then demurred, saying he'd not yet committed himself.) Incoming Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) has threatened to cut Israeli aid, but today, future Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) promised no aid cuts "at this time of great tension in the Middle East where we're trying to achieve peace...
...looks as if the rest of the Senate thinks it will be stillborn. The "mainstream coalition" led by Sen. John Chafee today huddled with Senate leaders on how to draft a bill that could get a filibuster-proof 60 votes. But in nearby chambers, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., pronounced the effort dead. Key Democrats weren't much jollier: Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has said the Chafee bill would harm Medicare and Medicaid. And Sen. Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat now often at odds with President Clinton, waxed cynical, saying the public...