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Network's summer reruns whip Fox's first N.F.L. broadcast...
...President for a meeting to discuss ways to rejigger the bill. The White House demurred, still hoping to gather the necessary votes among Democrats who jumped ship. But Republicans think the other party has overplayed its hand. "They have to let us be legislators too," insisted House minority whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia. "If they decide to go down the same narrow, partisan, liberal road, they'll lose health care the same...
...doubts were heightened by news reports that Judge David B. Sentelle, one of the panel of three judges who chose Starr, had recently been lunching with North Carolina Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's harshest critics. Though Sentelle says he and Faircloth never discussed Fiske, Democratic House whip David Bonior suggested last week that their meeting "should be a subject of investigation itself...
House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich is expected to demand tomorrow that Democrats strip between $2 billion and $4 billion from the proposed $33 billion crime bill, sources tell TIME Washington Correspondent Julie Johnson. But negotiators from the Democratic side hope to get enough votes simply by shifting $315 million currently slated for prevention programs into law enforcement, Johnson says. Meanwhile, President Clinton scored a few points today by convincing three members of the congressional black caucus to allow a full chamber vote on the crime bill. A vote should go down by the end of the week...
...that new chief of staff Leon Panetta wanted to shore up the party leadership after a string of Democratic losses since 1993. In an increasingly regular pattern in the Clinton White House, old friend Wilhelm will stay on as chairman until after the November elections, while former House majority whip and current Wall Street powerhouse Tony Coelho will step in as a senior adviser. Coelho, who resigned in 1989 amid accusations he improperly mixed politics and finance, will keep his investment-banking job while advising the White House...