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French government officials today proposed that the U.N. should lift the ban on oil sales by Iraq. The U.S. has vowed to veto any such proposal in the Security Council...
...from the current budget. The bill, which was vigorously attacked by Democrats as an assault on the nation's children and poor, would slash funding for a host of housing, drug, job and education programs-including President Clinton's pet project, AmeriCorps. The Administration indicated that the President would veto the measure if it survives the Senate...
...Things are beginning to turn our way," Heftyadded. "The House Republicans passed the firstbudget bill by a very narrow margin, and it's notgoing to override Clinton's veto...
...only remaining "Contract With America" proposal to have President Clinton's avowed support, the line-item veto, is ready for quick Senate approval after days of partisan wrangling. (The House version passed last month.) This afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole dropped a plan to cut off further debate on the bill, saying he was satisfied that Democrats would quit stalling. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) made peace by paring 33 threatened Democratic amendments down to about a dozen...
...meaning of checks and balances. But even if they end up losing some of the big early battles, they insist that the war is only beginning. "Our term is two years, not 100 days," says G.O.P. freshman Roger Wicker of Mississippi. "The balanced-budget amendment and the line-item veto are means to an end, and that's federal-budget discipline. The real test of our victory will be where the deficit is at the end of that two-year period...