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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the moments
after President Clinton’s State of the Union
speech, most members of Congress stuck to
the polite party scripts. But it didn’t take
long for the Republican scorn and Democrat
ic unease to filter through.
Most striking were the Republicans. Most
began by applauding Clinton for coming
their way and talking about tax cuts and
smaller government. But before long many
were ridiculing the president, saying he was
trying to pander to liberals and conserva
tives at the same time, and muddying his al
ready troubled image in the process.
Republican Rep. Jack Kingston of Geor
gia mocked Clinton’s address as “a great
marching speech. It went left-right, left-
right, left-right.”
Perhaps the Republicans were expected to
have second thoughts about being so polite
— they believe Clinton was seriously wound
ed politically by the November elections and
are in no mood to help him recover.
But a morning-after review of the Democ
ratic commentary suggested that Clinton’s
repeated overtures to Republicans left some
Democrats wondering where they fit in — or
just what to believe.
“He opposed every moderate effort in the
last Congress,” said conservative Democratic
Rep. Mike Parker of Mississippi. “I can only
wonder now if he actually believes in his own
promises, or will he reverse course yet again?”
Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon
found himself much in agreement with Clin
ton. But instead of leaving it at that, De-
Fazio went on to point out major differences
with Clinton — not exactly what the White
House had in mind on a night Clinton hoped
to reassert himself.
DeFazio took issue with Clinton’s efforts to
stabilize the Mexican peso through $40 billion
in loan guarantees,
and the president’s
proposal to raise Pen
tagon spending by
$25 billion.
Adding to the De
mocratic disunity, oth
ers questioned Clin
ton’s demand for a
middle-class tax cut.
Overall, most De
mocrats came loyally
to Clinton’s defense.
But even many in this
group took pains to
protect themselves.
“I could close my
eyes and hear him
talking about in
creasing opportunity but requiring respon
sibility,” Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana
said Thursday. “It was getting back to ba
sics and the middle class themes that
helped him get elected.”
"He opposed every moderate
effort in the last Congress. I
can only wonder now if he ac
tually believes in his own
promises, or will he reverse
course yet again?"
— Mike Parker,
Democratic representative, Georgia
Yet for all his praise of Clinton, Breaux
issued a statement that noted “he will sup
port the Clinton administration when he can
and oppose it when necessary.”
That line was reminiscent of last year’s
campaign, when Democrats were eager to
put a little distance between themselves
and Clinton. And it was evidence that
some Democrats fear having him atop the
ticket in 1996.
Republicans were more than happy to
feed those concerns.
Most labeled Clinton’s speech “me-too-
ism,’’suggesting he would not be talking
about smaller government, lower taxes or
incremental health care reform were it not
for the Republican
rout of Nov. 8.
Outside Washing
ton, instant polls
gave Clinton high
marks roughly eight
in 10 said they be
lieved Republican in
Congress were tak
ing a stronger lead
ership role in the
capital than Clinton-
a dynamic that has a
lot to do with the
GOP willingness to
bluntly criticize
Clinton.
“They hear him
getting back on the
right themes so they want to put the final
nail in the coffin,’’said Breaux.”! think they
know his capacity to come back and his re
siliency, so they are going to keep after
him with a venegeance.”
House presses for balanced-budget amendment
Differing views on implementation lead
to showdown, discussion, debate
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a
debate with enormous economic
and political significance, the
Republican-controlled House
advanced Wednesday toward a
showdown on a balanced-bud
get amendment designed to end
the government’s massive run
up in red ink.
“This is the cornerstone of our
party’s ‘Contract With Ameri
ca,”’ said Rep. Dan Schaefer of
Colorado, as GOP leaders
brought the proposal to the floor
a scant three weeks after swear
ing in their new, aggressive
House majority.
GOP lawmakers were nearly
unanimous in their support. But
with a two-thirds majority re
quired for passage, the amend
ment’s fate was in the hands of a
divided Democratic party.
House Democratic Leader
Richard Gephardt of Missouri
told lawmakers the proposal was
“perhaps the most important is
sue we will consider in your
whole time in the Congress.”
He pressed his demand for Re
publicans to identify the cuts they
would make to wipe out the
deficit. “Is there a hidden agenda
here? Is there somewhere in here
a veiled attack on Social Security
or Medicare, which some of our
friends on the other side have
threatened in the past?”
Republicans denied the politi
cally potent charge, and
arranged passage first of a com
panion measure — which does
not have the force of law — pro
claiming that Social Security not
be used to balance the budget.
With majorities in both hous
es of Congress, Republicans ex
pressed optimism that they
would finally prevail in a strug
gle that has been waged unsuc
cessfully in the House and Sen
ate since 1982. It takes a two-
third majority in both houses
and ratification in three-fourths
of the states to add the measure
to the Constitution.
In the Senate, an all-out fight
is expected from Sen. Robert C.
Byrd, D-W.Va., but Republicans
expressed confidence that they
have the votes to prevail. One
longtime GOP opponent. Sen.
Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas,
said the amendment was “ a bad
idea whose time may have
come,” and several GOP officials
said they expected she would
support the proposal.
In the House, the main point
of controversy concerned a re
quirement for a three-fifths vote
in both houses to raise taxes.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich
and most Republicans supported
it, but many Democratic bal
anced-budget supporters did not.
Under the rules established by
the GOP, the House scheduled a
first vote Thursday on an amend-
ment including the three-fifths
requirement — the version con
tained in the “Contract With
America.”
That would be followed by a
vote on a milder version that re
quired only a majority of the
whole House and Senate to raise
taxes. With many freshmen de
manding passage of the tax-limi
tation provision, GOP aides held
out the possibility that they would
change plans if they came close
on the first roll call and see
whether they could pressure
enough reluctant Democrats to
switch their votes and assure
passage.
Both versions call for a bal
anced budget by 2002, and re
quire a three-
fifths vote of
both houses
of Congress
to run a
deficit there
after, with an
additional
three-fifths
vote require
ment to raise
the debt.
Gingrich,
architect of
the “Contract
With Ameri
ca” that led
to the GOP
election
s weep,
sought to frame the debate: ‘You
have a Republican Party and
some Democrats who are saying,
‘We believe that cheating our
children and dumping our debt
on them is bad. It is immoral. It
is wrong.’”
On the other hand, he said, are
“mostly liberal Democrats, the old
guard of the old order, saying, ‘It
is impossible to rethink the feder
al government. It is impossible to
cut spending, itself.
"You have a Republican
party and some Democ
rats who are saying /We
believe that cheating our
children and dumping
our dept on them is bad.
It is immoral. It is
wrong/"
— Newt Gingrich,
Speaker of the House
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