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...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...
...President retorted with his own lesson in etiquette. Dredging up Armey's attack on Hillary Clinton during last year's health-care debate, he said, "I never, ever have and never expect to criticize your wife or members of your family." By evening's end, Clinton had vetoed a stopgap spending measure. The next morning, 40% of the nation's federal employees awoke to find themselves on a forced vacation...
...aboard Air Force One. "This is petty," Gingrich allowed. "I'm going to say up front it's petty ...but I think it's human." He pumped a final bullet into his foot by admitting, "That's part of why you ended up with us sending down a tougher [stopgap spending bill...
Call it a basic disagreement between the parties. Call it a constitutional crisis between the branches. But most of all, call it the formal and contentious opening of the 1996 presidential-election campaign. Key parts of the Federal Government shut down on Tuesday after President Clinton vetoed stopgap spending-and-borrowing legislation enacted by Congress. Clinton objected because Republicans had ladened the measures with restrictions intended to force him into accepting the huge spending cuts at the heart of their balanced-budget plan. The standoff continued throughout the week, overshadowing all but final congressional passage of the budget plan itself...
...with a measure extending government spending for a few weeks. However, Clinton is expected to veto the bills because of extraneous provisions he finds unacceptable. The likely result is a brief shutdown of nonessential government operations as the two sides find a compromise on the spending measure. One possible stopgap solution to the impasse over the debt ceiling: "borrowing" from the pension and savings of federal employees...