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...Democrats and Republicans, though the move risks splitting open his party and giving Gephardt valuable ammunition for a primary run against Gore. House Republican Conference chairman John Boehner foresees multiple coalitions, with swing votes coming from different members on each issue: the balanced budget, a tax cut and stopgap Medicare reform. "The agenda they're talking about is the agenda we're talking about," he says. "It's likely it will become law." Clinton and Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, have been talking regularly. Lott was in minority leader Tom Daschle's office last week when Lott's pager...
Clinton has lately talked of enacting some kind of stopgap legislation to keep Medicare solvent beyond 2001, which now looms as the year of bankruptcy, and then appointing a bipartisan commission to suggest long-term solutions. That sounds distressingly like a cop-out, a way to dump the problem into the lap of Clinton's successor...
WASHINGTON: Unable to reach agreement on a broad spending plan to fund government agencies and departments for the last six months of fiscal year 1996, Congressional Republicans passed another stopgap measure to keep government operations going through April 24. The measure, passed by Senate on a 64 to 24 vote and the House on a voice vote, awaits President Clinton's signature. The bill provides funds to operate dozens of agencies and departments. It also provides the $198 million requested by President Clinton to repair war damage in Bosnia. The White House has declined to say whether President Clinton will...
...this week to work out the details on how to provide more than $160 billion to fund the nine Cabinet Departments and numerous other federal agencies. The long-awaited compromise would bring to an end an ongoing crisis that has triggered two partial government shutdowns and has required 11 stopgap spending measures since last fall...
...Administration and Congressional officials may be getting closer to resolving the budget deadlock that has partially shut down government for the past two weeks. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta emerged from a three-hour meeting with Republican leaders on Friday, announcing the possibility of a stopgap spending measure that would send federal employees back to work while a budget is finalized. "The general tone has shifted among the principals," says Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "They seen to be coming out of the negotiating rooms happy, rather than angry. So it looks like some progress is being made." Facing...