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...Newt Gingrich and his lackeys attempt to change America, their most radical measures are not the punitive and reactionary proposals in the Contract With America, but their attempts to reshape, restrict and control popular opinion. These Republicans realize that their agenda is threatened more by the ideals and attitudes of the American people than by congressional Democratic resistance. They are most distressed by a simple, fundamental belief that the public stubbornly clings to--that the government has a responsibility to promote social welfare, especially for its most disadvantaged citizens. While House Republicans ram cuts in antipoverty programs through Congress...
...Gingrich told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce town meeting broadcast around the country. Gingrich andHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey(R-Tx.) called on voters to put grassroots pressure on the rebel representatives -- 102 of the 230-member GOP caucus -- to "keep our word on theContract." The rebels want to restrict tax credits to families with incomes no higher than $95,000, instead of $200,000. Rubbing salt in the wound, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt released Treasury Department figures today that say that otherwise, 51.4 percent of the GOP tax package would benefit those with incomes...
Upping the ante in the tobacco debate, FDA Commissioner David Kessler said that nicotine addiction begins when most smokers are teenagers and that smoking should properly be addressed as a "pediatric disease." The FDA, he said, is still studying whether to regulate or restrict the sale of tobacco-moves that would probably displease the current Congress...
...Legal Services, in which welfare laws had been judged discriminatory or otherwise unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Legal Services, in defending its client's legal rights to protection under the Constitution, had the political impact of overturning other laws. Now, Gramm wants to end those activities, which would severely restrict Legal Services' ability to serve what even Gramm has granted was their clients...
...would restrict smoking to 30 percent of a restaurant's total seats and 15 percent the year after enactment. The current law allows up to 75 percent of a restaurant's seats for smoking...