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...alone with a young female aide. Pat Buchanan has never stopped being controversial. Many candidates have shared their religious beliefs as part of their campaigns; a friend of mine with presidential aspirations jokingly wonders when she is going to have to experience a Baptist revival just to win the White House...
...cost $500 to $650 billion over 10 years, and can be easily paid for out of the $1 trillion in expected budget surpluses in that period. At the same time, he dug into Gore as showing a lack of guts for not pursuing universal health coverage while in the White House - one of the cornerstones of the 1992 Clinton-Gore ticket. "Maybe something happens when you listen to Washington's voices instead of the people's," Bradley told the audience...
Politics may be the art of compromise, but when it comes to the budget, these days, that's never as easy as splitting the difference. A Wednesday deadline began to look a little unrealistic Tuesday as White House and congressional negotiators hunkered down to bridge the gaps between them over spending on education, law enforcement and the U.N. While both sides could concede a couple of million here and there to the other's pet causes, the margin for horse trading is considerably diminished by the bipartisan consensus on fiscal discipline...
...John Dickerson. "The two sides would just raid Social Security. But the Republicans have drawn a line in the sand with spending caps, and Clinton has gone along with it." Hence the tortuous negotiations over relatively small amounts of money. Although Republicans appeared to be making concessions to the White House over funding additional police and paying U.N. dues, education is still shaping up as a fight. Although the two sides are only $200 million apart over how much to spend, the dispute is over how to spend it: The GOP wants additional spending to take the form of block...
...numbers all go the President's way," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "He'll sign some of these riders, but he'll get to pick and choose the ones that are most onerous and then decide what to keep. He seems to once again have gauged the political winds more accurately than the Republicans have." Then again, ever since the government shutdown of 1995 brought disaster for the GOP at the polls, budget negotiations have been something of a home-court game for the White House...