'Back-Door' Base Closures
Biden Talks Loss With Fallen Troops' Families
Neely Out at GSA
More USPS Buyouts
Gimme My Discount! Deals for Feds
Buyout Watch: Who's Offering What
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Key House leader to keep pressure on Clinton
September 1, 1998 For the most part, House leaders plan to take it easy during the last week before they start the final month-long push to adjournment next Wednesday-but politics will still take up some of their time. Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, will be the most active with his drive to pressure ...
Appropriations chief demands new spending cuts
July 28, 1998 Since revenue from the tobacco bill and other sources will not be available to offset many of the Clinton administration's spending requests, the White House must pick out new ones before the August recess, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston, R-La., wrote President Clinton Monday. "At this point in the ...
Projected budget surplus grows
July 16, 1998 Even without counting the Social Security surplus, the budget will be in balance in 2002 using new CBO projections released Wednesday. The new figures foretell a much brighter fiscal future than was envisioned just five months ago. The projected surplus for this year is $63 billion, rising to $251 billion ...
Senate appropriators get extra $1 billion
June 16, 1998 Senate Appropriations Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, will spread $900 million to $1.1 billion in additional appropriations among his subcommittees this week because of budget scoring changes that took effect once President Clinton signed the reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. Stevens plans to not only give the transportation ...
Senate passes IRS reform, gives union seat on board
May 8, 1998 The Senate Thursday voted 97-0 to pass IRS reform legislation after rejecting a proposal to deny an employee union representative a seat on a new agency oversight board. Senators rejected, 65-35, an amendment offered by Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C., which would have denied a seat on the board to a ...
Stripped-Down Supplemental Fails
May 23, 1997 Despite pleas from Republican and Democratic members from Midwest and Plains states hit hard by the recent devastating floods, the House leadership late Thursday rejected a pared-down version of the $8.4 billion FY97 disaster supplemental spending bill. The leadership then recessed the House to preserve its negotiating leverage on contentious ...
