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...President's threat of a veto notwithstanding. And a growing bipartisan chorus continued voicing dissatisfaction with the President's $40 billion emergency-loan-guarantee package for Mexico, which many characterized as a bailout for wealthy investors. The President, meanwhile, indicated that he would wait and sound out his staunch Republican foes before proposing a specific increase in the minimum wage...
...president of the United Mine Workers, who criticized the Kerrey-Danforth proposal for relying too heavily on cutting benefits and not enough on tightening tax subsidies, to Representative Bill Archer, the Texas Republican who next month will assume the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and is a staunch defender of corporate tax breaks. Both Kerrey and Danforth told TIME they are skeptical they can marshal the requisite 20 votes necessary to forward a formal report to the President...
...days before President Clinton unveils a middle-class tax cut to staunch the bleeding from his party's November defeat, House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri proposed his own lower- and middle-income tax break, then slammed Republicans as "trickle-down terrorists." Gephardt denied he was trying to upstage Clinton, but said "there will be and probably can be times when we are not going to agree and House Democrats are going to have our own proposals." Implicit in the remarks: Clinton shoulders much of the blame for Democrats' failure to "speak to the growing sense of insecurity" among...
...from being the standard-bearer of liberalism in the White House, says an aide, "she's a lot more conservative than she's made out to be in the media." To stress the point, the First Lady reminded an audience last week that she was brought up in a staunch Republican family and was a "Goldwater girl...
...Even staunch opponents of the gay ban recognized some virtue in the compromise. "It's progress," said BGLSA co-chair Moon Duchin '97. "Financially, Harvard is washing its hands...