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...TheRepublican push to cut Medicarein order to balance the budget promises to flare into a full-fledged political dogfight this week,TIME Washington economics correspondent Suneel Ratanreports. On Tuesday, the GOP-controlled House Ways and Means Committee will fire the first shot, summoning Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, who signed a federal report stating that the Medicare system will go bust by 2002, and demanding timely congressional action. The Republicans plan to ask her what the Administration would do to prevent the collapse of the Medicare system. Ratan notes that slashing Medicare spending or raising taxes would seem...
...House Ways and Means Committee approved the centerpiece of theRepublican welfare reform plantoday, voting 22-11 to give states more leeway in distributing benefits and to cut off government aid to most legal immigrants. The legislation also would replace cash benefits to thousands of disabled children with expanded medical services. Another House committee approved legislation to tighten rules for the food stamp program and to hold down automatic increases in benefits...
...speeches were geared toward expressing ourgrievances with some of the members of theRepublican Club," Zerhouni said. "Our intentionis to stand on principle...
Theoretically the consolidation of the programswould not require a cut in funding, but theRepublican leaders' proposal calls for both afive-percent reduction in the nutrition programsand a cap on future increases...
...This is no reason for moderate Republicans tojoin the Democrats," Williams said. "What theRepublican Club has become is not whatRepublicanism is about...