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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
GOP makes strides in first 100 days
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The brash freshmen were pulling in one direction, and an older group of moderates were tugging in another as the new Republican majority struggled last winter with the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
At a closed caucus in the House chamber, newly installed Majority Leader Richard Armey of Texas urged the first-termers to permit a change in the first key item of the "Contract With America."
"Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good," he said, urging them to drop their demand for a provision making it dramatically harder for Congress to raise taxes in the future.
It was a pivotal, early test of whether the Republicans, after four long decades out of power, could use their new majority to prevail against Democratic opposition. Failure would have jeopardized the Republican revolution before it began.
A compromise emerged: The freshmen would drop their demand for a constitutional provision requiring a three-fifths majority to raise taxes. Speaker Newt Gingrich would give them a separate vote on the issue next year.
And the amendment swept through the House — the first of many triumphs for the GOP as the leadership maneuvered skillfully among the voting blocs and special interests.
For Gingrich, Armey and the Republicans, the triumphs have been numerous in an exhausting 100 days.
The triumphs involved GOP governors in drafting legislation and seemed to overshadow the Senate and even the presidency. Gringich's
prime-time address to the nation Friday night — a preagent usually reserved for presidents — merely underscored the scope of change.
What ultimately happens to the "Contract With America," will be determined in negotiations involving President Clinton and the GOP-controlled Senate. There, an enormous pile of contract items awaits—tax cuts, welfare, crime and legal overhaul among them.
Beyond that, the fate of the Republican revolution launched last Jan. 4 will be determined by the voters in 1996, a battle for which both sides are preparing.
Said Democratic Rep. David Bonior of Michigan, Gingrich's tormentor in chief: "Since we began work on this contract ... we haven't passed a single amendment that addressed jobs, incomes, education, health care or training."
No one better illustrated Democratic disenfranchisement than Democratic Leader Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri. He fended off a challenge to his leadership post, then, on Jan. 4, handed Gingrich the speaker's gavel that Democrats had wielded for 40 years. "As you may imagine, this is not a moment I had been waiting for," he noted wryly.
Even some Democrats praised the institutional changes made by Republicans: an opening day one-third cut in committee staffs. A bill to place Congress under workplace laws followed by private companies passed unanimously and was signed by Clinton.
But Democrats objected to much that Republicans did.
"Policy development was done solely within the Republican caucus and by special-interest groups," said Rep. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md. "Democrats were not invited to participate."
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