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...promised, President Clinton vetoed legislation that would have unilaterally ended American participation in the U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia. The President expects to use the congressional summer recess to wheedle enough members to change their votes and sustain his veto...
This week, after months of stealthy preparations, the Speaker plans to take his campaign public, with a speech scheduled for Monday in Cleveland to lay out his sales pitch, though not an actual plan; that will wait until fall. Before Congress breaks for its August recess this week, he intends to prime his troops to deliver the message. It goes like this: Medicare's own trustees say the program will go bankrupt in seven years; the Democrats are too lily-livered to do anything about it; and so it is up to the Republicans to "save Medicare" by clamping down...
...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...