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- <title>
- Nov. 21, 1994: Cover:Election:Agreement in Principle
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Nov. 21, 1994 G.O.P. Stampede
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- COVER/THE ELECTION, Page 61
- Agreements in Principle
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> For all their differences, Bill Clinton and the new Congress
- may be able to get a few things done. On some issues Clinton
- may even find it easier to do business with the G.O.P. than
- with his own party:
- </p>
- <p> TRADE
- </p>
- <p> Though Dole is grumbling about some aspects of the latest version
- of the worldwide free-trade pact known as the General Agreement
- on Tariffs and Trade, he is expected to find a way to support
- congressional approval in this month's special session. It's
- the first order of business in his meeting this week with Leon
- Panetta, the White House chief of staff.
- </p>
- <p> LINE-ITEM VETO
- </p>
- <p> This measure, which would allow a President to strike individual
- items from a bill rather than blocking the whole thing, was
- a Clinton campaign promise and a feature of the G.O.P.'s "Contract
- with America."
- </p>
- <p> MIDDLE-CLASS TAX CUT
- </p>
- <p> Everybody wants to pass one, but the budget deficit dictates
- that it will probably be only a few hundred dollars a year.
- </p>
- <p> PRODUCT LIABILITY
- </p>
- <p> A bill that would limit lawsuits and the amount of damages awarded
- was killed in the last session by a Democratic filibuster. But
- many of those opponents are now gone.
- </p>
- <p> SUPERFUND
- </p>
- <p> Small businesses will be pushing the Republicans to support
- the Administration in overhauling the hazardous-waste cleanup
- program, long criticized as producing little more than lawsuits.
- </p>
- <p> WELFARE REFORM
- </p>
- <p> It's something both parties claim to want. And public sentiment
- would seem to demand that they produce something. The question
- is whether Clinton and the Republicans can reconcile their different
- views on how and when to throw people off welfare if they do
- not work? Cost will also be a serious sticking point.
- </p>
- <p>By Karen Tumulty/Washington
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
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