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Just when Internet-savvy Republicans thought they were safe in cyberspace, Democrats today made their own splash on the Net's World Wide Web. And none too soon: earlier this month, theGOP arrived with an information-packed Web sitethat features pages for all nine Republican White House hopefuls. The newDemocratic National Committee siteunderstandably strikes a more defensive tone, with a barrage of White House press releases, a "Connecting with America" page and a crew of "outside experts" brought in to "validate" President Clinton's budget plan. The upside: "Al Gore's Cartoon Gallery," a video clip of Sen. Ted Kennedy...
...TheGOP compromise plan to balance the budget within seven yearsdrew widespread support in the Republican ranks today but, predictably, criticism from the White House. President Clinton derided the proposal, which trims Medicare and Medicaid and offers $245 billion in tax cuts, as "still too extreme."TIME's James Carneyreports that White House aides, meanwhile, still can't agree on how -- or when --the President should fight for his own, 10-year plan. "The proposal represents a break from the past," Carney says. "What has remained the same is his failure to follow through when he's made major proposals...
American servicewomen and the spouses of servicemen will no longer be able to have abortions at overseas military hospitals, thanks to legislation passed in the House today. The bill amounts to an opening salvo in theGOP drive to eliminate government funding for abortionsand narrow access to the procedure. GOP Presidential hopeful Rep. Robert Dornan, (R-Calif.) led the charge as Republicans narrowly staved off a Democratic move to drop the ban from a 1996 defense spending bill. Ten abortions had been performed at the foreign bases since President Clinton's 1993 executive order ended...
...strongly disagreed with Clinton's determined effort to preserve federal programs that Republicans would eliminate.Jay Carney, TIME White House correspondent, reports: "The President made a very strong case tonight for a place at the table, after having been completely irrelevant to the budget process. He accepted the fact that theGOP has created the momentum for a balanced budget. His message was basically 'Yes, but I can do it better, with less pain.' In moving so swiftly to compromise, though, he is opposing the majority of the Democratic leaders in Congress." Some Democratic leaders today accused Clinton of surrendering just...
...Senate passed theGOP's landmark planto balance the budget by 2002 (by a vote of 57-42), after relentlessly shooting down two dozen Democratic amendments designed to protect Medicare, national parks, education and other GOP targets. "We will finally begin tounpile the deficits," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. "We will finally begin to speak for the future." The GOP package promises $958 billion in savings -- chiefly from Medicare, Medicaid and the elimination of 181 agencies and programs, from the Commerce Department to the Opera-Musical Theater Advisory Panel. Notably absent: $350 billion in tax cuts that more aggressive House...