Word: recessiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans could be ready for him. They know from conversations with constituents during the summer recess that they have an image problem of being Robin Hoods in reverse. Having whacked school lunch programs and the working poor, they have to be careful about stroking the FORTUNE 500 too enthusiastically. Freshman Representative Mark Souder returned to Washington bearing the news that in his Indiana district voters were "starting to wonder, Did we swap Big Labor and Big Government for Big Business? New suits, maybe...
After two mostly idyllic weeks in the Wyoming wilderness, President Clinton returned to the Oval Office to grapple with Bosnia and a fractious G.O.P.-led Congress just returned from its summer recess. "We've seen breathtaking mountains, lakes, streams and meadows," he rhapsodized in his Saturday radio address (possibly with an eye to the environmental concerns of many middle-class voters). "And all of this belongs to you, the American people, for all time to come." Before heading back to Washington, the President flew to Hawaii for ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the defeat of Japan...
...Dole today said Republican legislators returning from August recess were in no mood for an "autumn of compromise" as controversial GOP proposals on Medicare, welfare, and the budget come up for votes over the next few weeks. But congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says that's probably just what Republicans will do: "Welfare reform could come up as early as next week, but they probably won't get very far on it," she says. Instead, the GOP may "attempt the impossible" by lumping Medicare and welfare together in a mammoth budget reconciliation bill...
...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...