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...United States must focus on economic growth, health and crime and saving the inner cities to meet its socio-political challenges, said House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (RGa.) last night at the ARCO Forum...
...spend rhythm of the old Democratic Party. But in NAFTA Clinton embraced a treaty fashioned by Republicans, ignored the advice of many around him and defeated a majority in his own party. This time Clinton earned his New Democrat stripes. "Some fights are definitional," said House minority whip Newt Gingrich, whose party provided most of the votes, "and this was one of them...
FIND A STRONG RIGHT ARM Clinton had a formidable, if unlikely, ally in Newt Gingrich, a Republican who has a reputation for shooting first and aiming later. The White House dithering led the Republican whip to fire a warning shot across the Administration's bow. Reflecting the fears of his colleagues that Clinton would blame them if NAFTA failed, Gingrich called the President's | efforts at that point "pathetic." Unless Clinton could come up with 100 Democratic votes, Gingrich said, he could not deliver the 118 Republicans needed for victory...
...benefits and job security have resulted in violent labor protests in Italy and massive demonstrations in Germany. A crippling walkout by Air France employees forced the government to back down on plans to cut 4,000 jobs. "We are on a dangerous road," warns Rudolf Dressler, the deputy party whip of Germany's opposition Social Democrats. Yet even welfare's staunchest defenders concede that fixes are needed. The system is going bankrupt. The huge sums Europeans pay to support it -- taxes average more than 40% of gross domestic product, vs. only 30% in Japan and the U.S. -- are not sufficient...
...barest minimum, the results last week will fail to help Clinton win congressional support not only for NAFTA but for his health-care reform bill as well. Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, a deputy Democratic whip in the House, fears that Clinton's health-care bill will become more vulnerable to attack -- wrongly, in her view -- as too expensive and too likely to promote a growth of government bureaucracy. On state and local levels at least, charges of excessive spending and too much bureaucracy have been proving lethal...