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That stature gap helps explain why both parties are playing a new Washington game called "Whose Wrecking Ball Is Bigger?" After Republican Newt Gingrich announced his plan to sell one of five House office buildings, jealous Clinton aides one-upped the Republican leader with a plan to padlock an entire federal agency. Hearing of this, Republican leaders late last Friday began work on a new budget plan to close four agencies: HUD, Energy, Education and Commerce. The bidding war exasperated one official. "Now we're in a situation," he said, "where if we don't abolish three agencies, we look...
When speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich announced that one of the priorities of the emerged Republican majority would be school prayer, wise men shook their heads; the G.O.P. was making the same mistake Bill Clinton had when he began his transition by pushing for gays in the military...
...smuggle it back in, past the baleful eye of the A.C.L.U. and its postulants on the bench. The 1962 Supreme Court decision that banished prayer from public school classrooms is one of the most unpopular the court has handed down, and surely the only one that unites Newt Gingrich and D.C. mayor-elect Marion Barry...
...their definition extends to families with income of $200,000 a year. And the G.O.P. prefers to pay for new tax cuts by cutting spending on the poor and the bureaucracies that purport to serve them, rather than on upper-income Americans and business interests. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week brushed off the inequities of Social Security and its projected insolvency, which he dismissed as "an abstraction that is 25 years from now." He added that it is "utterly irrational" to alarm retirees about entitlements before first reforming lesser categories of federal spending. President Clinton privately expressed similar...
...session, Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned the President that "Gingrich is on the verge of capturing the support of working-class people" and urged that Clinton move aggressively to win them back, according to other officials familiar with the meetings. The Republicans will be bold on some fronts, "but they aren't going to take on the wealthy and the special interests," Reich told Clinton. "We should sharply contrast Republicans, who want to cut taxes on capital gains for the wealthy, with Democrats," who want to help working people...