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...Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Lina Lofaro, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders, Anneke Tryzelaar and Sidney Urquhart
...environmental regulations. House Republicans, though philosophically supportive of the Clinton plan, balked at providing the rest of the votes unless Clinton took a firmer public stand against the demands of the liberal Democrats. Clinton was forced to mount a hurried campaign for passage, and dispatched Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to bring the rebellious Democrats in line...
While Clinton polished his speech, his top aides were working on little besides the Mexican loan deal. Rubin, Panetta and Vice President Al Gore faced a hostile group of House Democrats Wednesday morning and realized that they had what one called ``a potential tragedy'' on their hands. Fearful that voters back home would resent the public underwriting of private loans to Mexico, lawmakers refused to make what Gore called ``a difficult vote but an easy decision.'' Hearing Gore's insistence that the Treasury might actually make money from the deal, a lawmaker shocked the White House group with his bluntness...
...back. "Let's cut out this nonsense of trying to hoodwink the American people," Hollings told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, where Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) ignored GOP leaders more sympathetic to the plan by giving its opponents a daylong public forum to gripe. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin touted the IMF loan -- largest in the organization's 51-year history -- as the international community's vote of confidence on Mexico's ability to recover. But in Congress, says TIME's Tumulty, "right now it's just a big mess. The president's version cannot pass, but they know...
Democrats weren't the only ones complaining last week. Rival publishers said the price for the book, which was sold by Gingrich's agent in a telephone auction on Dec. 20, rose breathtakingly fast, keeping it out of their reach. "There was no time to do anything," said Stephen Rubin, president of Doubleday. However, publishing executives attribute the high price to HarperCollins' zeal, rather than any rigging of the auction process...