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- Dec. 05, 1994: Presidency:Now, About That Contract
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Dec. 05, 1994 50 for the Future
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE PRESIDENCY, Page 33
- Now, About That Contract
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By David Seideman
- </p>
- <p> In September, Newt Gingrich rallied more than 300 G.O.P. candidates
- in Washington to embrace the "Contract with America." President
- Clinton derided it but is now ready to bargain on certain parts.
- </p>
- <p> Gingrich's Proposals
- </p>
- <p> To revive the Reagan-Bush promises of the 1980s, a $500 per
- child tax credit and a tax cut for capital gains on investments.
- </p>
- <p> Clinton's Response
- </p>
- <p> "How will all this be paid for?" Clinton asked. But he may propose
- his own family tax break and consider a capital-gains cut.
- </p>
- <p> Gingrich's Proposals
- </p>
- <p> A constitutional amendment that would require the federal budget
- be balanced by 2002, or seven years after enactment.
- </p>
- <p> Clinton's Response
- </p>
- <p> Clinton says that such automatic, across-the-board spending
- cuts are a gimmick and that the G.O.P. has not said what the
- cuts will be.
- </p>
- <p> Gingrich's Proposals
- </p>
- <p> A line-item veto provision that will permit the President to
- "single out wasteful spending in bills passed by Congress."
- </p>
- <p> Clinton's Response
- </p>
- <p> "I hope the Congress will do it quickly," Clinton says. "If
- they do, we'll bring the deficit down even more quickly."
- </p>
- <p> Gingrich's Proposals
- </p>
- <p> An anticrime package that would include limits on death-penalty
- appeals and more money for prisons and law enforcement.
- </p>
- <p> Clinton's Response
- </p>
- <p> Administration officials say they may shift some more prevention
- money from the crime bill to police forces and block grants.
- </p>
- <p> Gingrich's Proposals
- </p>
- <p> Welfare laws that would stop benefits for recipients after two
- years, enforce enrollment in work programs and cap spending.
- </p>
- <p> Clinton's Response
- </p>
- <p> "I think we will get an agreement," Clinton said. He would also
- set a two-year limit, but emphasizes costlier job-training bills.
- </p>
- <p> Gingrich's Proposals
- </p>
- <p> A "restoration" of national security to stanch spending cuts
- in the defense budget and resurrect the controversial Star Wars
- system.
- </p>
- <p> Clinton's Response
- </p>
- <p> Clinton has moved the opposite way, pledging to cut defense
- spending by twice as much as he had promised, now $120 billion
- over five years.
- </p>
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