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...line-item veto question that Clinton will find the most agonizing. The President ran into a barrage of criticism when he wielded the pork-slashing power on the military construction bill, and aides are urging him to keep cuts low this time. To that end, chief of staff Erskine Bowles has prepared a relatively minuscule list of items on which to use the veto. One item curiously absent from the short list: the AEGIS cruiser set to be built in Trent Lott's home town in Mississippi. Clinton has made his objection to such blatant pieces of pork clear...
...This week, the President visits Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, building the case for Congress to grant him powers to negotiate trade pacts without the shackles of pork-barrel politics: the so-called Fast Track. Where Reagan spooked Americans with tales of toppling dominoes, Clinton may rely on the specter of Mercosur. The trade association combining the booming economies of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is fast emerging as an alternative to U.S.-dominated trade pacts, and has pledged to sign a free trade pact with the European Union...
...this very article on videotapes got nearly equal prominence with the article describing how Clinton used the new line-item veto to slash $287 million dollars of pork off of a military bill. And what the videotape hounds don't tell you until the fourth to last paragraph is that the videotapes released thus far have indicated "no illegal actions" on the part of President Clinton or any other Democractic Party official...
...sentimental value, $5 million is a stiff price to pay in this age of balanced budgets. Most presidential properties are bequeathed, gratis, by their owners at death to the National Parks Service. The government already has more parks than it knows what to do with, thanks to congressional pork--such as Steamtown (Pa.) and Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Meanwhile, there's not enough money to keep up national treasures like the Grand Canyon. User fees at parks like Yellowstone have shot up like Old Faithful...
...Paul Pritchard, president of the National Park Trust, calls the purchase "highly irregular," given that the fund for taking care of well-established parks is in "desperate shape." And California Democratic Congressman George Miller says he finds no justification for paying millions to a President who railed against pork...