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...minute address to the House, Gingrich said he had two over-riding goals: to achieve a balanced budget by 2002 and "to truly replace the current welfare state with an opportunity society." He swore in the new members of the House and began debate on rule changes that would slash committee staffs, abolish three House committees and require a three-fifths vote to raise income tax rates. Republicans now have majorities in both chambers: 230-204 with one independent in the House, and 53-47 in the Senate. Congressional Democrats said they'd cooperate with the GOP majority; however, House...
...Contract with America, the G.O.P. wants to extend the $500- per-child tax credit to families with incomes up to $200,000 and make the new IRAs available to all taxpayers. To pay for the tax cuts, the Republicans would probably accept many of Clinton's reductions -- and then slash more deeply at domestic spending as well as Medicare and Medicaid...
...were spared after their heads agreed to severe budget cuts. HUD, for instance, may be trimmed by selling off some of its public housing stock and making the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages, an independent agency. The DOE was saved only after Secretary Hazel O'Leary agreed to slash $22 billion over five years from her budget, which this year totals $18.5 billion. Officials spent the day in a flurry of Cabinet-level meetings and it's likely "that nothing's been decided yet," says TIME White House correspondent Adam Zagorin. "In fact right up until the delivery...
...solution is not, as Newt Gingrich would maintain, to slash funds for welfare and place the children of single mothers in orphanages. The problem of poverty is a real one, and the Republicans cannot make it disappear merely by ignoring the depth of the crisis. People sometimes need help, and it is the obligation of any humane, civil society to provide...
President Clinton signed the historic General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs today, launching U.S. entry into a 123-nation trade accord to slash import tariffs here and abroad. But he did so over vehement protests from critics who say GATT will undermine American labor by ending penalties against the products of low-wage workers from other countries. "Hey, Bill! You're selling out!" a man with a megaphone outside the Organization of American States shouted as Clinton arrived for the ceremony. Clinton's reply to the public: "We must never run away from the world." The treaty cuts global tariffs...