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When the Undergraduate Council proposed to move fall-term exams before winter recess, the Faculty Council voted unanimously to scrap the plan...
...political pep rally. White House officials had been complaining in recent weeks about what one top Democratic aide called "the failure of Democrats to crow about the economy." Fearful that lawmakers will be unprepared for criticism of the President's performance during the 12-day recess, the White House readied a 20-page guide on how to argue the President's case while visiting with voters back home. The list of accomplishments: lower inflation, a smaller deficit and a fairer tax code. "We're doing good," Clinton told his troops. "Tell them about...
...Republican filibuster, which requires 60 votes to break. Last week cloture failed 56 to 42. The President has the option of sending Brown to the CSCE without ambassadorial rank, but that would hurt American credibility. So another vote will be taken after the Memorial Day recess. In the meantime, an aide to Senator Brown called the Browns' old phone number the day after the vote and happened to get Brown's wife, who was moving a few last boxes. She stood in her kitchen, now gutted by its new owners, and listened to him tell her that the Senator...
...timing is excruciating. Rostenkowski has promised to unveil his outline of a health bill immediately after Congress's Memorial Day recess. Yet under the rules of the House Democratic Caucus, if a committee chairman is indicted for a felony punishable by more than two years in prison, he must cede his chairmanship, though not his committee membership. (He can return later if vindicated.) And so at precisely the moment when he planned to move Bill Clinton's most important legislation through the key House committee, the chairman might be stepping down in shame...
With the Clintons away on vacation in California and Congress in recess, Washington's political temperature cooled down considerably. Administration officials capitalized on the break to put the clamor of Whitewater behind them and refocus on promoting the President's domestic agenda...