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Anticipated Floor Schedule: The House Will Meet at 12:30 p.m. for Morning Hour and 2:00 p.m. for Legislative Business No Votes are Expected Before 2:00 p.m. Last Vote Expected by 6:00 p.m. * One Minutes * Suspensions (6 Bills): 1) H.R. 2280 - Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 1999 2) H.J.Res. 34 - Congratulating and Commending the Veterans of Foreign Wars 3) H.R. 1568 - Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999 4) H.Con.Res. 94 - Recognizing the Public Need for Reconciliation and Healing, Urging the United States to Unite in Seeking God, and Recommending that the ...

Don Wade was again speaking with witty passion against and aghast at our Pravda-like Media, but I chose last Friday's (25-Jun-99) similar rant as the more readable. At the end of that show, Don Wade had some ad-lib time on his hands (scheduled guest Tony Snow was inflight and unavailable), so I instinctively knew it was time to turn on my little distortion-prone Panasonic IC Recorder. Don Wade: [talks here of the network news media clamming up on anything that would hurt Clinton regarding ChiCom espionage...] ROMA: So you're saying that it's a conspiracy? DON WADE [Factually]: None of the ...

The Other Bush Visits - (TAMPA) -- Campaigning for president, Texas Governor George -W- Bush begins a two-day swing through his brother's state. The Texas Bush arrived in Tampa overnight, and will speak at a-thousand-dollar-a-plate gathering there today. He then heads for similar gatherings in Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Campaign officials say they're hoping to raise about two-Million-dollars during the Florida visit.

Coulter for Congress? A nasty article about Ann Coulter in Salon magazine might convince the conservative pundit to launch a primary challenge against Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) next year. While Shays didn't have anything to do with the Salon piece, friends say that the harsh story is bound to fire up Coulter. "Stuff like this would make her run," John Fund, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, told HOH. "She loves a fight." Conservatives were livid about Friday's Salon article. Headlined "Ann of a Thousand Lays," [Note: Most of the article is available in today's Media Research ...

Paperwork putting cops under gun BERNARDSTON, Ma -- Local police departments, especially smaller ones like those in Bernardston, Buckland, and Deerfield, are bracing for a year-long deluge of paperwork, fingerprinting, and criminal background checks linked to a new gun law. Every firearm identification card in the state will expire on the birthday of its holder. Everyone who has and uses an FID card will need to renew it on his or her birthday between July 1 and June 30, 2000. There are no grace periods and no waivers. The new FID card permits the possession and carrying of ''non-large ...

SWANSEA, Mass. - The only prison chain gang in the Northeast celebrated its first week in existence Wednesday by digging weeds out of a granite curb and lamenting the ball field it couldn't reclaim from years of neglect. The prisoners' hearts have been in that job. Problem was, so had their chains. Those chains, which link five men at the ankle, have created controversy more deeply rooted than the weeds disguising the ball field alongside Fall River's Watuppa Heights housing project, where just one of the political showdowns over the work crews took place. Amnesty International and the American Civil ...

Christians trying to destroy this nation Culture/Society Opinion (Published) Keywords: CHRISTIANITY, HATRED, Source: (Reprinted from the Tigard Times "Soapbox" column, July 14, 1994) Author: by Reid Iford Positive Atheism Web Site Posted on 06/25/1999 14:56:21 PDT by mlmr Christians trying to destroy this nation I'd like to praise Walt Williams, Washington County OCA (Oregon Citizens Alliance) director, for his impassioned defense of Christian hatred, fear, intolerance, persecution, and religious freedom ("Vote 'yes' on OCA initiative in November," June 30). Many Christians still claim their religion is one of peace, love, and forgiveness. How refreshing was Mr. Williams' honesty in admitting ...

Vision: that's the all-important ingredient the public wants from its presidents. Remember when Ted Kennedy flunked the vision test when Roger Mudd asked him what he would do if he became president? (He was stumped.) And now the high-flying George W. Bush isn't doing much better when he's asked where he would take this country. What, indeed, does "compassionate conservative" mean? Mr. Bush says it means what it says, that he'll be a conservative who will apply conservative doctrines and approaches - like balancing the budget, tax cutting, etc. - in compassionate ways. But what in the world does ...

Sources: Hubbell to Plead Guilty By Pete Yost Associated Press Writer Monday, June 28, 1999; 1:49 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Webster Hubbell plans to plead guilty Wednesday to a felony charge that he attempted to cover up his and Hillary Rodham Clinton's role in a fraudulent Arkansas land deal, legal sources said today. Hubbell, the first lady's former law partner, also will plead guilty to a misdemeanor tax charge as part of the agreement, sources said. Hubbell had been scheduled to go on trial Aug. 9, and prosecutors had listed Mrs. Clinton as a potential witness. Under the agreement, ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Jury finds administrators guilty in Puerto Rican corruption case By VILMA PEREZ, Associated Press Writer The Associated Press June 14, 1999, Monday, AM cycle SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A federal jury convicted three people of stealing $ 2.2 million of federal funds meant for AIDS patients Monday, capping the latest in a series of sensational trials that have embarrassed Puerto Rican politicians. ...the Majority Whip in Puerto Rico's House of Representatives ... testified that he took a cardboard box stuffed with $100,000 ...

CONTRARY to the incessant major media and White House spin that Judge Starr is 'wrapping it up'- after assiduosly following Judge Starr's endeavours vs the entire White Water & associated criminal escapades of the Clintons, I pray to God (reverently) that his intentions are as follows: 1)Nail down in taped, sworn testimoy and signed statements all the esential legal evidence Hubbel has to offer- hopefully this has been accomplished. 2)Continue with a deliberately slow, thorough completion of legal cases and indictments vs many of the criminal gang in our White House to include the TRIPOTUS and HITLERY. 3)Most importantly ...

In Response to Clinton's New Social Security Approach Web posted 6/28/99 at 2:15 p.m. EDT (Alexandria, VA) - Steve Forbes, Republican presidential candidate, made the following remarks regarding President Clinton's White House press conference on Social Security today: "President Clinton holds a press conference today urging Congress to consider his latest take on Social Security. "The Clinton-Gore Administration deserves close scrutiny when it comes to Social Security. After all, they led the charge to raid billions from the Social Security trust fund last year. As if that weren't enough, now they're out to roadblock the real reforms necessary for ...

Goldberg File Updated 6/28/99 3:30PM I’M BAAAAAAAACK. Switzerland was wonderful, and I apologize to all of the readers who missed my daily fare -- and I denounce the mad, mad fools who felt they could live without it. The Helvetic Confederation, Switzerland’s official name, is a pretty fascinating nation, if a bit dull. Indeed, the reason it’s fascinating is precisely related to its dullness. The old and partly unfair line about Switzerland is that it has had 700 years of peace, prosperity, and unfettered democracy, and has only invented the cuckoo clock. Italy had the Borgias, wars, tyranny, etc., and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain is launching an Internet web site aimed at building grass-roots support for overhauling the nation's campaign finance laws. Headlined, ``It's your country. Take it back from the special interests,'' the site seeks contributions to McCain's presidential campaign and signatures on a petition calling for changes in the way campaigns are financed. It also lists examples of spending projects McCain derides as ``pork barrel,'' including $70 million for livestock assistance, including reindeer, in the supplemental appropriations bill. McCain, a senator from Arizona, plans a major address on campaign finance reform later this ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel anchor Paula Zahn will host a show in the 10 p.m. slot left open as a result of Catherine Crier's departure from the network, Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, said Friday. Zahn, 42, left CBS earlier this year to anchor Fox's evening newscast. Crier said June 23 she was leaving Fox and her nightly show, ``The Crier Report,'' to anchor a midday legal news show for Court TV beginning in October. Crier had been a state judge in Texas for five years before turning to television news. Zahn, had anchored ``CBS ...

For fair use The American Prospect, July-August 1999 Below The BeltwayK Street Gore John B. Judis One important way to judge what a presidential candidate might do if elected is to look at his record while in office—his publicly announced positions and his skill in commanding loyalty, wielding authority, and winning public support. But it is also important to look at the networks of campaign contributors, lobbyists, political organizations, and policy groups that have surrounded him over the years and that might have some claim on his loyalty. Does anyone imagine, for instance, that if Texas Governor George W. Bush ...

In the two weeks since NATO forces arrived in Kosovo, alliance officials have scaled back their initial estimates of the damage inflicted on the Yugoslav army by the 78-day air campaign. They now concede it remains a force capable of maintaining Slobodan Milosevic's hold on power. While NATO and Pentagon officials stand by their claims to have significantly damaged the Yugoslav army and special police, they acknowledge that the units that withdrew from Kosovo a week ago were clearly not as hobbled as they had believed. And those forces, they acknowledge, could be employed by Milosevic again, at least ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Front-runners Al Gore and George W. Bush echo each other as they seek the center. WASHINGTON - Has anyone ever seen them in the same place at the same time? Maybe Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush are the same person. Or at least it seems that way at times, as the two major parties' new standard-bearers crisscross the US, sounding strikingly similar themes in their pitches to voters. For the Republican Bush, his mantra of "compassionate conservatism" can sound a lot like the Democratic Gore's "practical ...

Will Hubbell Testify? Is He Under Witness Protection? One of the really amazing oversights clouding Ken Starr's investigations was how the Office of Independent Counsel could have allowed Jim MacDougal to suffer and die in prison without even the most minimum medical care standards being met. After all, MacDougal was a witness against the president.... Cries of medical foul play and conspiracy should have exploded the roof off the Arkansas Federal Court House. Not a peep of protest was heard from the major television media. Of course, MacDougal had left a stream of allegations floating in the media and he ...

Following is a critique of the so-called Clinton Doctrine which also presents an alternative solution for dealing with foreign civil wars/humanitarian problems. This material was originally published at PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLYComments are welcome. Thanks. An Outsider’s View (...And Victory for All) So, this was the war to define future wars. How to "win" has been demonstrated by none other than an impeached, draft-dodging, flower-power hippie and leaders of an alliance that are either a collection of his clones or weaker, NATO enriched cheerleaders. Commander-in-Chief William Jefferson Clinton has rewritten military manuals and with a series of strikes has shown why the ...