Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Talks got back on track after White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta met Thursday with Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. John Kasich, the chairmen of the Senate and House Banking Committees. House Republicans have said that they will not pass a continuing resolution to end the partial federal shutdown until the budget deal is completed...
...biggest stock market tumble since 1991, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 101.52 points to close at 5,075.21. Worries that a partial government shutdown might cause the Federal Reserve to postpone a predicted lowering of interest rates on Tuesday sent investors into a selling frenzy. Declining issues led advances by four to one on a heavy volume of 426.23 million shares as of 4 p.m. EST, despite a one-hour opening delay in trading due to computer problems that stock market officials have yet to fully explain. With the Dow at near-record highs this month, the slide represented...
...Clinton said he would present his own plan to balance the budget in seven years. Clinton agreed revise his initial goal of balancing the budget in seven to 10 years to a seven-year timetable as a condition of resolving the temporary-spending deadlock that caused a partial government shutdown last month. The Clinton plan calls for smaller tax cuts than the GOP version, and will also ask for smaller spending increases on domestic programs than his previous budget includes. On Medicaid and Medicare, Clinton has not changed his plans. His budget seeks cuts of $124 billion from Medicare...
...full retreat. But Clinton has outmaneuvered the Republicans, allowing them to demonstrate to the public their extremism and providing himself with the perfect political ammunition. He is retreating no further; in recent weeks, emboldened by increasingly favorable polls, he has stood up to Congress, most notably during the government shutdown...
...matter who got the best of whom--polls continued to show that the President won the public debate over the shutdown--the deal only provides stopgap funding for the Federal Government until Dec. 15. By that time, the two branches will have to come to terms over permanent appropriations bills for the current fiscal year or else face another crisis. Serious budget negotiations are set to begin as soon as President Clinton vetoes the massive G.O.P. plan that finally cleared Congress on Monday...