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...ritualistic hospitality accorded the President quickly evaporated following his address, as Capitol Hill returned to the nitty-gritty of governance. Republicans and some Democrats let it be known that they were prepared to repeal the recently enacted ban on assault weapons, the President's threat of a veto notwithstanding. And a growing bipartisan chorus continued voicing dissatisfaction with the President's $40 billion emergency-loan-guarantee package for Mexico, which many characterized as a bailout for wealthy investors. The President, meanwhile, indicated that he would wait and sound out his staunch Republican foes before proposing a specific increase...
...ideological verve and concerns about the voters back home, the freshmen are also threatening to walk away from a Mexican bailout supported by Republican leaders in both houses; to force the most stringent version of term limits, over the objections of party elders; and to push for a repeal of the assault-weapons ban, a huge fight the Speaker doesn't want just yet. ``Some of these guys just have no fear,'' says an awestruck Republican House veteran. ``Some of them look at us like we're the problem...
...same time, this year Liston acted properly in rejecting Hanselman's resolution to fund ROTC and--reversing his own position--in helping to repeal the term-bill increase. Liston said he hoped to forget the past, and in his Newtish "Contract With the College" he did offer many well-founded suggestions for council projects: visits by council board members to all undergraduate rooms, council office hours in the Houses and quality-of-life changes such as dormitory lighting. Still, Liston's administrative record makes him a questionable choice for the council's top executive...
...contingent of 26 House Democrats, under heavy lobbying by the National Rifle association, sent Speaker Newt Gingrich a letter Wednesday pledging to help him repeal the assault weapons ban passed last summer as part of President Clinton's hard-won crime bill. The letter, delivered the morning after Clinton vowed during his State of the Union address to fight to turn back any attempts to repeal the ban, says the conservative Democrats are "resolute in our commitment to repealing this ill-conceived measure at the first opportunity." Gingrich has called the repeal "inevitable." But the Speaker "doesn't want...
Special interests are legendary for distorting facts and preying on fear. The letter from the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare that helped trigger the rapid-fire repeal of a 1988 law to ensure catastrophic coverage under Medicare began with the words, "Your Federal Taxes for 1989 May Increase by Up to $1,600 . . . Just Because You Are Over the Age of 65" -- even though 60% of all seniors wouldn't have paid a dime more in taxes. The tone of cool reason favored by the Founding Fathers is similarly lacking from this Jerry Falwell mailing: "American troops...