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...voting against their leader's back-to-work bill for federal workers may pay for it in campaign dollars. Gingrich backed out of two fundraisers for Indiana Reps. John Hostettler and Mark Souder after the two joined 13 other Republicans on Friday opposing a plan to end the federal shutdown, despite the Speaker's emotional appeal for support. The bill passed easily 401-17 but Gingrich isn't forgetting the slight, altering his schedule to favor those who voted with him. Gingrich aide Tony Blankley confirmed that the votes led the Speaker to dump the fundraisers...
...Washington after the blizzard dumped more than 16 inches of snow on the city. Monday was supposed to be the first day back on the job for federal employees after President Clinton agreed on Saturday to legislation that temporarily ends the three-week-old, partial government shutdown...
While the United States government shutdown continues into the new year because of the federal budget impasse, Cambridge will spend at least the first week of 1996 without an elected mayor...
...Office of Management and Budget has estimated that if furloughed federal workers are paid for the time they've lost during the shutdown, while those essential employees currently working without pay are also reimbursed, the government already owes its employees well over $1 billion...
...second time in a month, the Federal Government was forced into a partial shutdown after budget talks between congressional Republicans and the White House collapsed. President Clinton accused the G.O.P. of wanting to make "deep and unconscionable cuts in Medicare and Medicaid." Senator Robert Dole retorted, "I don't think he's telling the American people the truth." The two sides could not agree on when to restart negotiations...