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...with scorn as the Other Body). "The Senate?" Waxman said. "A wonderful place. Very deliberative body. Thoughtful people." Fresh from defeating the balanced-budget amendment, Senate Democrats, backed by some Republicans, are preparing to dismantle the next item from the House G.O.P.'s contract: the line-item veto. Senate leaders hope to take it up this week, but the bill probably will have to be watered down before it even reaches the floor. Even when the Senate has passed a bill that the House has sent it, relations between the two chambers have not been easy. Late Friday, after wrangling...
...federal programs, ranging from public housing to public broadcasting, then pushed $100 billion more in reductions through a divided budget committee as a way of funding tax cuts. Calling today's cuts "irresponsible and mean-spirited," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta immediately promised that President Clinton would veto the legislation. The $100 million package, expected to pass the House by month's end, would help fund $190 billion in tax cuts over five years, most of them for a $500 per child tax credit for families earning under $200,000. But TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty notes that...
...suggested, that he had traveled to Canada more as a "titular" leader than an actual one, given how power had shifted to the Republican-controlled Congress. Clinton bristled. "Unless I miss my guess, a bill doesn't become law unless I sign it or it passes over my veto," he said evenly. Then he delivered a blistering assessment of the G.O.P. agenda as "radical right wing" and "an attack on ... kids." To conclude, he said, "I don't consider myself a titular head of state, and until there is some evidence to the contrary, you shouldn't either...
...them. It is an odd, frustrating position for someone who arrived in Washington two years ago brimming with ideas, promising change and assuring the public that he and the Dem-ocratic Congress would break gridlock. This year his most notable acts as President will be to create gridlock, with vetoes of Republican legislation he considers extreme. Whether the fight is over Clinton's program to fund 100,000 more police or the survival of his national-service youth corps, the White House hopes the public will credit the President for standing on principle. And as a senior Clinton adviser happily...
...served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar managed a fractious group of Senators through a thicket of contentious issues like aid to the contras. He persuaded Ronald Reagan to get the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos to leave office but lined up votes to override Reagan's veto of a bill imposing sanctions on South Africa. A supporter of the defeated balanced-budget amendment, he is rare among his colleagues in proposing specific cuts that hurt a powerful constituency that happens to be his own: farmers. He is leading the charge against farm subsidies, proposing cuts of $15 billion...