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...package, the largest tax relief in more than a decade. Coming a day after the House overwhelmingly voted for its GOP-sponsored tax relief proposal, the White House is feeling the pressure to make a deal fast. Just minutes after the House bill passed the bill, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was sequestered with chief House tax writer Bill Archer, looking for ways to overcome presidential reservations about what a radical tax bill would mean for the fate of the balanced budget deal. Both measures represent the biggest tax break since the Reagan administration. "We're going to work with...
...package, the largest tax relief in more than a decade. Coming a day after the House overwhelmingly voted for its GOP-sponsored tax relief proposal, the White House is feeling the pressure to make a deal fast. Just minutes after the House bill passed the bill, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was sequestered with chief House tax writer Bill Archer, looking for ways to overcome presidential reservations about what a radical tax bill would mean for the fate of the balanced budget deal. Both measures represent the biggest tax break since the Reagan administration. "We're going to work with...
...Albright took over the presidency of the Center for National Policy. Robert Rubin '60, Warren Christopher and Mickey Kantor--all of whom would later serve in President Clinton's Cabinet--were among the members of the center's board. In that position, she prodded researchers to ground their analysis by using polls and opinion surveys to gauge domestic reaction...
...turmoil attending Zaire's galloping insurgency against Mobutu has obscured the wider change. With Museveni as its godfather, this realignment of Africa's old order tends to be Anglophone in its international voice, pro-American in its diplomacy and attuned to Adam Smith in its economics. Says Barnett Rubin, an official at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York: "The Zaire rebellion has become a trans-Africa struggle. It's very messy, but the prospects for better governance lie with these newer forces...
...seek any distance. Both realize that neither can have what he really wants without the other. The first test of the President's legacy will be whether the country embraces his heir. And nothing would make Gore more unassailable as a candidate than a successful Clinton presidency. Says Rubin: "If you build a strong record of accomplishment and balance the budget, then anyone who might run against Gore is going to face very formidable obstacles." To be martyred for the sake of the history books hardly matters at all, by that logic. Three years is time enough for a political...