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Americans Still Like the Postal Service
A Forced 4-Day Weekend for Many Feds
No More Tax-Cheating Feds, Senators Say
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Senate GOP prepares to unveil agenda
January 14, 1999 Senate Republicans met Wednesday, not to discuss impeachment, but to work on the legislative agenda for the 106th Congress that they plan to announce early next week. Senators said they will propose five bills centering around education, retirement and Social Security, tax cuts, national security, and anti-crime and anti-drug efforts. ...
Dems show interest in budget rules changes
January 12, 1999 Senate Rules Committee ranking member Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., late last week said Democrats are willing to consider Senate rules changes proposed by Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., to speed floor consideration of budget and appropriations bills. While Lott's proposals would limit some rights of Senators to offer amendments to the ...
House chair to push for independent FAA
January 8, 1999 Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today said he will push legislation to make the Federal Aviation Administration an independent agency. Shuster, during a meeting with reporters, said the FAA should not be privatized-but that it should be made into an independent agency like ...
Lott pushes budget, appropriations changes
January 7, 1999 Following last year's protracted budget and appropriations battles that many Republicans considered disastrous to their policy agenda as well as to their electoral prospects, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., Wednesday proposed several Senate rules changes to keep controversial and non-germane legislative riders out of the appropriations bills and the ...
DOT IG report finds border inspections lacking
January 4, 1999 With implications for the debate over free trade and fast track trade negotiating authority, a report released today by the Transportation Department's inspector general found only a fraction of Mexican trucks crossing the United States border are inspected, and that 44 percent of those trucks were turned away due to ...
GOP Senators re-elect leaders
December 1, 1998 In a marked-but expected-contrast to their colleagues in the House, Senate Republicans today re-elected their entire leadership team for the 106th Congress. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the only member of the Senate leadership to be challenged for re- election, handily defeated Sen. Chuck Hagel of ...
Conservatives challenge GOP leaders over budget deal
October 20, 1998 The Conservative Caucus and other conservative groups today called for the ouster of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., for a "comprehensive betrayal of constitutional obligations and a rejection of conservative policies [in the omnibus bill] for which many Americans thought they were voting ...
Congress, White House try to finalize budget deal
October 14, 1998 The House this afternoon moved to pass yet a fourth continuing resolution, as negotiators haggled over the last several issues blocking Congress from passing an omnibus spending package that President Clinton can sign. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., told reporters today: "We're making progress, but it is very difficult. There ...
White House: We don't want a shutdown
September 30, 1998 White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles Tuesday sent a letter to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., saying that President Clinton will do all he can to avoid a government shutdown, but will not "shy away from a fight" over his "budget priorities." "In a series of letters, you have ...
Clinton touts $70 billion surplus
September 30, 1998 President Clinton today hailed the estimated $70 billion surplus the federal government will have by the end of the fiscal year tonight, but warned Republicans against spending it for a tax cut. "Now that we've balanced the budget, we should commit ourselves to saving Social Security," Clinton said at a ...
