Word: recess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House says Congress is moving so slowly on other spending bills that Clinton may call lawmakers back from their August recess in order to complete needed appropriations. The last president to do that was Harry Truman...
...RUNNING OUT of time. The bureau faces a long hot summer of scrutiny, starting this week when the House subcommittees on crime and national security begin a joint eight-day hearing on ATF and FBI actions at Waco. The crime subcommittee plans two more hearings after the August congressional recess to examine other alleged ATF abuses and the enforcement of firearms laws in general. In short, congressional Republicans aim to ask whether the bureau should be allowed to survive. One of this week's inquisitors will be Representative Bob Barr of Georgia, an N.R.A. member who heads Newt Gingrich...
Burke was tempted to take the appointment -- in part, she says, so that she could spend more time with her husband, insurance executive David Chew, and their three small children, ages three, five and seven. (She managed to deliver two of them while the Senate was in recess.) But characteristically, she instead took on the job in addition to her other duties. The arrangement didn't work, so given the choice again, Burke returned to full-time policymaking as chief of staff...
Alerted by Buse, McCain was soon on the floor, threatening to delay the Senate's July 4 recess by demanding a separate vote on both projects. Eventually, Yellow Creek was removed from the bill, and the Clear Lake provision was modified to McCain's satisfaction. "There is still a belief that you can't get re-elected unless you bring home the bacon,'' says McCain. "I don't think that's the way voters feel anymore ... They don't understand why, when we're asking people to make a sacrifice on Medicare, we feel we can afford these other kinds...
With Congress out of town for the July 4 recess, President Clinton used the political quiet time to seek a way to avoid a potential electoral problem: the closing of McClellan Air Force Base, located in voter-rich California. An independent commission has recommended the money-saving shutdown, one of many scheduled military-base closings around the U.S. As White House aides and Pentagon officials searched for a more politically palatable alternative, sources reported progress toward a possible deal: work done at the base might be privatized, thus allowing the military to erase McClellan from its books but giving California...