HOUSE READY FOR VOTE TO REPEAL BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS
A volatile campaign issue moves to the House floor Friday as Republicans seek to reverse the 1994 ban on certain types of assault weapons. Should the repeal pass the House,...
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SOCIAL GUARANTEES REMAIN AT HEART OF BUDGET DEBATE
With budget talks faltering and financial markets wary, President Clinton said Thursday that he and GOP negotiators were "not that far apart" on a plan to balance the federal budget...
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS
In the beginning, House Speaker Newt Gingrich saw a family-friendly revolution in the halls of Congress. Last January, when the voluble Georgian took charge of the first Republican majority in...
A POWELL PRESIDENCY SENDS SHIVERS UP SPINES OF CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS
When House Republican lawmakers look at retired Gen. Colin Powell, they do not see the second coming of Dwight David Eisenhower. They do not see the Man on Horseback, or...
GOP IRONS OUT BUDGET DIFFERENCES
Quietly, leaders of the Republican majority in the House and Senate are moving toward passage of their compromise budget plan, which promises to balance the federal ledger and eliminate the...
RENEWING AMERICAN CIVILIZATION: WHAT GINGRICH HAS ON TAP FOR 1995
Out went the old year, a year crowded with fundraising innovations on the political front. Politicians spent record amounts of dough getting elected and re-elected, and record amounts of time...
IN WASHINGTON, ‘TIS THE SEASON NOT TO ALIENATE VOTERS WITH STRAIGHT TALK
President Clinton, who isn't having a wonderful life, gazed into the icy, roiling water beneath him and wondered if his administration ever should have been born. Leaning against the wind,...
DEFEATED DEMOCRATS JUST WANT TO MOAN
The ghost of the Democratic Party awoke last week and appeared to many. A month after a disastrous confrontation with the voters in the midterm election, President Clinton emerged from...
RIGHT POLICY OR NOT, CLINTON CATERS TO FOES ON FREE-TRADE PACTS
Having tripped over NAFTA, President Clinton is falling for GATT. The wonders and benefits of free trade lie far beyond this columnist's poor powers of comprehension, but Ross Perot and...
GOP LEADERS LACK REAL-WORLD PEDIGREE
If you believe the deep thinkers inside the Republican Party and in the public prints, America is about to experience an intellectual renaissance, an explosion of fresh ideas brought to...