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...Congress. "Unlike with NAFTA, it's a Republican Congress this time, and free trade is a natural GOP issue," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "They've made a major concession to Clinton by agreeing to vote on this as soon as May 22, mainly because most of them want to claim this victory too." But the fact that it's China this time loses a lot of right-wing Republicans over human rights and nuclear spying. So Branegan says the vote may hinge on how many Democrats Clinton can hang on to, which means somehow convincing the labor crowd...
...Reported by Tim Padgett and Timothy Roche/Miami, Jay Branegan and Elaine Shannon/Washington and Dolly Mascarenas/Havana
...With reporting by Jay Branegan and Viveca Novak/Washington
Democrats have long derided the investigation as a Republican ploy to destroy a popular Democratic president, but, as TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan notes, "this independent counsel position has taken a life of its own. It's not beholden to either party, and it stands to hurt both of them." In an interview with the Washington Post on Monday, Ray said that he's bolstered his prosecutorial staff in recent weeks and will pursue charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in the Monica Lewinsky case as well as charges surrounding the coercion of Kathleen Willey. The following...
...surprisingly, President Clinton is happy to claim some credit for Smith & Wesson's decision. "The White House is saying the deal was forced in part by their threats to join the existing lawsuits against gun makers," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. Now that the nation's largest gun manufacturer has joined Colt in a deal with the government, will other, smaller gun makers head to Washington as well, ready to cut a bargain? "It's quite possible," says Branegan. This spirit of compromise won't sit well with the NRA, whose position has only grown more stringent over...