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What happened? To House Speaker Thomas Foley, the answer was simple: Americans love a tax cut -- any kind of tax cut -- and the legislators reflected that feeling. Democrats contended, correctly, that 80% of the benefits from the capital-gains slash would go to people making more than $100,000 a year, 60% to those with incomes over $200,000. No matter, says Foley. Tell an ordinary taxpayer that he will reap $10 from a measure that will save the likes of Donald Trump an average of $25,000 a year, and the taxpayer will reply, "Fine. Give...
UConn senior keeper Tom Foley, meanwhile, had surprisingly little to do in face of Harvard's high shot total--only six shots were...
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Congress always wages an uneven battle with the President, but Democratic political consultant Ted Van Dyk declares, "The troops are starting to get restless. There have been no clear alternatives and damn little criticism. Foley and Mitchell should be out front." Yet the Democrats have been mired in troubles of their own: the convoluted agony of the pay raise, the forced resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and whip Tony Coelho, and now the sex scandal involving Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Nor is the climate right for combat, with the economy perking along and the President enjoying an extended honeymoon. Grouses...
...part, Foley notes that the Speaker no longer has the power exercised by the legendary Sam Rayburn: "The hierarchical society is gone, in the country and in the Congress. The idea of government is to govern. There will be enough fights." Observes Mitchell: "There will be both confrontation and cooperation. There will not be confrontation for the sake of confrontation...