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...booth at the party's convention. Bush spoke out on behalf of the Log Cabin, saying it "should be treated with dignity and respect." But when the Texas legislature considered a hate-crime bill with special penalties for crimes against gays, he opposed it. He promised to veto any bill repealing the state's homosexual-sodomy law, and he supported legislation that would ban gay adoption and even take children away from gay couples who had already adopted them. Even Forbes couldn't get to the right of that...
...Although the new fiscal year actually started Friday, the final negotiations on how to budget for it won't take place for weeks. Clinton has already promised to veto some of the Republicans' proposals; most of the rest is mired in some serious GOP infighting. In a particularly poignant example Thursday, a $2 billion cut in foreign aid favored by the party's fiscal hawks (for the money) and neo-isolationists (for the principle) was dragged down by a third GOP faction that wanted to tack on anti-abortion provisions. While Clinton stands back and drawls about "sitting down...
...plenty of work to do already, getting its vision of next year?s budget ready for the annual brouhaha with White House negotiators. So far, the Republicans have sent Clinton just four of the 13 spending bills for the coming fiscal year, and the White House has threatened vetoes of six of the others. Desperate for cash that won?t bust the spending caps and eat into the surplus (although that will certainly happen eventually), they?ve tapped $3 billion in unused state welfare money to make some ends meet, which has governors and Democrats screaming mugging. With an October...
Clinton is correct to veto the tax break, but Congress seems split on how to work toward compromise. Some would like to see popular parts of the vetoed bill passed individually, while others, looking ahead to the next election, seem to eschew any sort of cooperation...
Well, chalk one up for the GOP. By packaging a party favorite in a veto-proof $288.9 billion defense bill that includes a military pay raise and a 4.4 percent across-the-board increase in Pentagon spending, Senate Republicans have pushed through a broad reorganization of the Department of Energy that will largely separate the nation?s nuclear labs from the rest of the department. The Republicans say the measures will streamline administration, increase accountability and prevent the kind of embarrassing security snafus that made Wen Ho Lee a household name...