SENATE OKS TAX-CUT PLAN DESPITE THREAT OF A VETO
Congressional Republicans pressed forward with a strategy to put the political focus on tax cuts as the Senate passed legislation Friday calling for $792 billion in tax reductions over the...
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GOP TAX CUTS OF $792 BILLION PASS IN HOUSE
After a daylong delay and frantic campaigning by Speaker Dennis Hastert, the House passed legislation Thursday calling for the largest reduction in taxes since President Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cuts....
PANEL URGES AMA LABOR GROUP
Listening to cries from fellow member doctors, a committee of the American Medical Association's version of Congress urged the Chicago-based physicians group to form a national labor organization. The seven-member...
FUNDRAISER TESTIFIES BEFORE HOUSE PANEL
A key figure in the 1996 campaign-finance scandal gave his first public testimony Tuesday, offering a portrait of a small-time businessman who used fundraising photos with President Clinton to build...
FARRAKHAN PROGNOSIS CALLED `EXCELLENT’
The Nation of Islam said Wednesday that Louis Farrakhan's "prognosis is excellent," as the controversial leader spent his second day at Howard University Hospital with an undisclosed illness. The statement...
JORDAN TESTIFIES AS GOP PONDERS NEXT TRIAL MOVE
WASHINGTON--Presidential friend Vernon Jordan was questioned for nearly three hours in the U.S. Capitol's secure intelligence briefing room Tuesday as senators contemplated their next move in the impeachment trial. As...
ALL POLITICS LOW-CAL AT SENATORS’ BREAKFAST
Perhaps the hour was too early for such weighty issues. But amid an all-Monica, all-the-time week in the U.S. Capitol, the weekly 8:30 a.m. breakfast, which Illinois' two senators host...
SPEAKER-ELECT ADMITS ILLICIT SEXUAL AFFAIRS
On the eve of the House debate to impeach President Clinton for lying about sex with Monica Lewinsky, House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston told his Republican colleagues Thursday night that he...
IMPEACHMENT VOTE POSSIBLE NEXT WEEK
With his stewardship of impeachment hearings increasingly under fire, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde announced Wednesday that the committee could vote on articles of impeachment against President Clinton by...
PANEL TRIES TO ARRANGE A DEADLINE
With the last blizzard of Independent Counsel Kenneth's Starr evidence before the public, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is preparing to assure Democrats that his...