UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday. November 30.1994
Democratic senators in dispute over top post
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Secret ballot will determine leader
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Tom Dashle, a soft-spoken, persistent South Dakota with less than 10 years in the Senate, laid claim to the post of Democratic leader yesterday and vowed to forge a legislative program not dictated solely by the White House.
Daschle said he had unequivocal pledges of support from 24 senators, enough to lead minority Senate Democrats in the Congress that convenes in January. His rival, Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut,
refuse to concede, and a secret ballot election is set for Friday. "We're still in this, and I wouldn't be making the calls if I didn't believe it," he said.
Speaker Tom Foley banged the gavel to open the House for the final time in a Democratic reign that stretches to the Eisenhower era. Galows humor penetrated the Democratic side of the House floor as veteran power brokers contemplated life in minority.
"I want to go upstairs and see if they've chiseled my name off the door," Massachusetts Rep. Joseph Maolley said with a smile. As chairman of the House Rules Committee, Maolley has been entitled to an office in the Capitol one floor above the House chamber.
House Democrats held a private
caucus in preparation for today's leadership elections. Conservatives are mounting uphill challenges to the party's two top leaders, Richard Gephardt and David Bonior, with talk of possible conservative defections to the GOP, depending on the outcome of the organizational caucuses.
"There is a great deal of frustration, anger and concern, but it's not focused toward Dick Gephardt," who is favored to be re-elected as leader, said Rep. Bill Orton of Utah. "It was focused against ourselves collectively."
In the Senate, Daschle said he was prepared to work with majority Republicans when possible.
As 191 the White House, he said, "I think it's clear that Democrats in the
Senate must establish their own identity, that we work on an agenda that takes into account priorities within the administration but not be dictated solely by that.
Dashle, 46, who served four terms in the house before his 1986 Senate election, began running for the Democratic leader's post within hours of Sen. George Mitchell's surprise announcement earlier this year that he would retire.
Daschle's election would signify the ascendancy of a younger group of Democrats, elected in the past eight years and too junior to enjoy the power of committee chairmanships in the recent years in which their party held a majority. A list of 24 supporters released by Daschle's office includes 14 elected in 1896 or later.
Clinton meets with governors to plan agenda
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Turning to old friends in troubled times, President Clinton summoned a handful of governors to a private dinner and was urged to focus on a slimmed-down agenda and pursue bipartisanship with the new Republican Congress.
The session with Democratic governors Monday night is part of a series of meetings Clinton is holding as he seeks to interpret the Democratic drubbing in the midterm elections and to look ahead to rebuilding his image and party over the next year.
Yesterday, Clinton met with a dozen House Democrats who either lost or did not seek re-election this year.
"We were so preoccupied with doing right for the country that the other side was able to chip away at us in the propaganda war," was the analysis of Rep. Peter Hoagland, D-Neb., who was defeated.
At the Monday night session, however, the Democratic governors urged Clinton not to accept assessments that blame the party's losses on a communications problem, according to several participants.
Colorado Gov. Roy Romer said he would not discuss his advice to Clinton in any detail because the session was confidential. But, he said, governors offered a different opinion that he needed to hear. Governors don't live inside the Beltway, and they
understand what it means to be held accountable.
Another governor at the dinner, Vermont's Howard Dean, said the consensus was that Clinton needed to focus on welfare reform, balancing the budget and cutting government.
"Democrats have to learn to be fiscally conservative and that means Democrats have to cut government and balance the budget," Dean said. "The president and the Democratic party need to have an understandable agenda, which means it is short."
A third participant, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Clinton and the governors briefly discussed eliminating or merging certain federal agencies and departments.
Pentagon considers plan to build 20 more B-2 bombers
Crosby Jr., head of Northrop's B-2 division, outlined the offer to John Hamre, the Pentagon budget planner. Hamre is putting together President Clinton's fiscal 1966 defense budget request, which will be unvelled early next year.
Northrop is proposing to build 20 more B-2s at a guaranteed average cost of $570 million each between 1996 and 2003. Under a second option, not yet formally presented to the Pentagon, the planes would be built at a slower rate and cost more
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is examining a proposal to build 20 more B-2 bombs for $11.4 billion—the latest effort by Northrop Grumman Corp. to save its major weapons program from extinction.
overall but require lower annual appropriations.
The offer to build at a guaranteed price comes after months of deliberations among Northrop and its main subcontractors: Boeing Co., builder of wing and fuselage sections; Hughes Aircraft Co., radar supplier; and General Electric Co., which builds the engines.
Northrop's figures differ sharply from a Congressional Budget Office study, which said 20 more B-2s would cost $26 billion.
GOP bill would cut income tax
At the Pentagon yesterday, Ralph
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In an early glimpse of the agenda in next year's Republican-controlled Congress, GOP lawmakers introduced a bill yesterday to slash income tax rates by as much as 20 percent.
The measure, which will be reintroduced when Republicans take control of the House in January for the first time in 40 years, was co-sponsored by Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., the incoming speaker; Rep. Richard Arney of Texas, who will be majority leader; and Rep. Dick Zimmer, R-N.J.
"Tax rates in the United States are too high," said Rep. Jim Saxon, R-N.J., another sponsor. "I want to start the ball rolling to restore some sense of reason to our tax laws."
The bill would reduce the lowest tax rate from 15 percent to 12 percent and the highest bracket from 39.6 percent to 33 percent. The 28 percent rate would fall to 22 percent; the 31 percent rate to 25 percent; and the 36 percent rate to 33 percent.
The Clinton administration remains opposed to buying more B-2s, but Northrop hopes the Republican Congress will reverse years of legislative opposition to the stealth bomber.
The Associated Press
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