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That outcome was virtually assured last week when Republicans loaded up two stopgap bills, one to continue government spending and another to extend borrowing authority, with extra provisions they knew the President would not accept. The question now becomes who will bend after what will probably be a series of presidential vetoes. Emboldened by polls showing public opinion running nearly 2 to 1 against the G.O.P. budget, Clinton aides believe, as senior adviser George Stephanopoulos says, that "the bottom is falling out for the Republicans." That may be wishful thinking, but the idea of a prolonged showdown no longer worries...
Under what will be enormous public pressure to reach a compromise, Carney notes, the two sides may simply agree to a stopgap resolution without agreeing on a budget, in effect punting the issue until the 1996 elections: "A 'no-deal' is still a possibility. But first they have to come up with some sort of continuing resolution just to keep the government running, even if it's a continuing resolution for the whole year. At some point, there will be a very serious impact as new applicants for welfare and veterans benefits aren't able to get anything and services...
With presidential veto threats hovering over many of the 13 spending bills that are needed to keep the government functioning into the new fiscal year, which begins this week, the President and the Republican congressional leadership reached a temporary truce. A compromise stopgap spending measure will fund government agencies at reduced levels until Nov. 13. It remains to be seen whether the extension will prove long enough for the President and Congress to hammer out their differences. Meanwhile, an unexpectedly fierce House g.o.p. rebellion defeated final versions of defense and environmental spending bills...
Though the quick pace of change ensures that Duke's 2001 is little more than a stopgap remedial course for the time being, Fulton's students will nonetheless graduate with valuable basic knowledge of the modern tools of communication. Soon after the new millennium rolls around, however, such a catch-up Odyssey will probably be unnecessary -- at Duke or anywhere else. By that time it will have become the 21st century equivalent of that 1950s relic, Typing...
Stashing Cuban rafters in tents at Guantanamo is a stopgap, not a policy...