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...Congressional Black Caucus. The GOP's move must be approved by the Committee on House Oversight and will also terminate the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. "I'm an equal opportunity terminator," said Rep. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today. Under the plan approved at a meeting of House Republican members, the caucuses could continue to exist if they are funded directly by the office budgets of the individual members. The action would save $5 million and mean a reduction of 96 taxpayer-paid caucus staff members, the Republicans said...
...delivered ascathing assessment of the CIA's handlingof the Aldrich Ames spy scandal, the House Intelligence Committee weighed in today with a verdict that the agency took a "negligent attitude" in trying to find the mole and stop him from damaging worldwide U.S. intelligence operations. Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan.), the committee chairman, called the Ames affair "a case of sloppiness in big capital letters" -- in part because the CIA didn't tell Congress it suspected a double-agent was loose in its ranks. The FBI also came under fire for being "inexplicably passive" during the early stages...
...monitor a possible Israeli-Syrian peace accord in the disputed Golan Heights, but then demurred, saying he'd not yet committed himself.) Incoming Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) has threatened to cut Israeli aid, but today, future Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) promised no aid cuts "at this time of great tension in the Middle East where we're trying to achieve peace...
...rest of the Senate thinks it will be stillborn. The "mainstream coalition" led by Sen. John Chafee today huddled with Senate leaders on how to draft a bill that could get a filibuster-proof 60 votes. But in nearby chambers, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., pronounced the effort dead. Key Democrats weren't much jollier: Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has said the Chafee bill would harm Medicare and Medicaid. And Sen. Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat now often at odds with President Clinton, waxed cynical, saying the public fears "we're going...
...guard abortion clinics after a doctor and an escort were killed, and the doctor's wife wounded, at a clinic in Pensacola, Fla. on Friday. U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno assigned the forces to many facilities including ones in Melbourne, Fla., Fargo, N.D., Falls Church, Va., and Wichita, Kan...