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...umpteenth time in the last six-plus years. Janet Reno stands behind the President, assuring him he needn?t play ball. Republicans seethe and look for a way in, a way to finally make Clinton pay for all the vileness he represents to them. "This committee is a bipartisan committee that's not going to be stiffed," said Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) of his Senate version of the investigation. "Frankly, we're just sick and tired of it." They are coming for Clinton on Wen Ho Lee, on FALN and Waco, on throwing money down the Russian sinkhole. Clinton...
...that has faded from the front pages to the news briefs - and the White House is suddenly under pressure over it. The New York Times reports Friday that a bipartisan group of senior senators and congressmen has written to President Clinton warning of the "drift" in U.S. policy on Iraq, and urging that Saddam Hussein be given a new deadline for compliance with arms-control requirements or face a new round of intense bombing. Although air strikes on Iraq hardly make the paper any longer, let alone the front page, the U.S. and Britain have fired 1,100 missiles...
...care plans, one study shows. So those grisly stories repeated from the Senate floor--the woman who didn't get the catheterization and died--are true exceptions. Next, about 40 states already give patients some of the protections Democrats sought in their broader "bill of rights." The disingenuousness was bipartisan, of course. The Republicans, who had gleefully foiled President Clinton's first-term plan to cover uninsured Americans, were suddenly fretting that costly regulations proposed by the Democrats would boost the ranks of those left behind...
...gambit for the most ravenous tax-cutters in the party ?- Bill Archer & Co. in the House - to start negotiating." It?ll be tough. Besides Clinton, who?s the lowballer at $250 billion in cuts, there?s the Senate Republicans, who are zeroing in on $500 billion and have garnered bipartisan support. The House?s number will be the first to get tossed, says Branegan, and for good reason. The moderates were right the first time - it is too expensive...
...sink the bill when the 211 Democrats and one independent are a sure thing to stick together. Mostly moderates, led by Michael Castle of Delaware, the GOP rebels have a $514 billion cut in mind ?- more in line with what?s moving through the Senate these days (with bipartisan support), and a lot closer to what Bill Clinton might actually consider signing. But House GOP bigwigs like tax hawk Bill Archer, whip extraordinaire Tom DeLay and Hastert aren?t looking to make legislation; they?re looking for a showdown with the White House that will make 2000 a referendum...