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- <title>
- Apr. 12, 1993: End of the Streak
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- NATION
- End of the Streak
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Facing down Clinton, Republicans contend that gridlock isn't
- so bad
- </p>
- <p> President Clinton no longer has an undefeated record in
- Congress. A Republican filibuster in the Senate derailed his
- $16.3 billion economic stimulus plan, which Democrats claim
- would create 500,000 jobs. Clinton could count on just over 50
- votes to bust the filibuster, well short of the 60 required.
- </p>
- <p> The President raged that the Republicans were casting
- "votes for paralysis." Unfazed, G.O.P. leaders retorted that the
- spending bill, which steamed through the House last month, was
- an old-fashioned "tax and spend" bill larded with pork. "The
- American people are going to look at gridlock as a very
- favorable thing before too much time goes by," said Republican
- Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island.
- </p>
- <p> Late Friday, majority leader George Mitchell angrily
- postponed the Senate's Easter recess. But Republicans vowed to
- hold out until the Democrats give up more than half the proposed
- spending package, including $500 million for the popular Head
- Start program for children.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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