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Only three of the least controversial measures had become law by the end of 1995 as Congress and the White House battled bitterly over the federal budget. On the surface, the contract differed little from other modern Republican platforms. It began with a statement of three "core" principles in the form Moncler Women green Spring Autumn long coats of an argument: the federal government is too big and unresponsive (accountability), and big government programs sap individual and family willpower (responsibility) thus an overtaxed and overregulated citizenry cannot pursue the American Dream (opportunity). Republicans had been saying as much for at least two decades. Although Democrats had controlled Congress for more than forty years with an almost opposite view of government s duty to its people, Republicans had held the White House from 1980 to 1992. moncler kids coat The election of President Clinton in 1992 was a striking setback for Republican Party strategists. 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Second, it promised that the House would vote on the Moncler Button Down Jacket handsome Men brown ten key planks of the contract within the first one hundred days of the new Congress. The contract gave these ten planks names such as the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the Taking Back Our Streets Act, and the Personal Responsibility Act. The contract promised action on the following issues: the federal deficit, crime, Welfare reform, family values, middle class tax cuts, national defense, Social Security, federal deregulation moncler men sweater and capital gains tax cuts, legal reform, Civil Law and Product Liability, and term limits for federal lawmakers. The actual proposals represented a mixture of old and new ideas. Republicans had long supported deregulation of industry, tort reform, and middle class tax cuts. As a deficit reduction solution, the line item veto was an old idea: ever since the 1980s, Republicans had called for a presidential power to veto specific parts of federal spending bills (rather than the entire bills). More revolutionary was the contract s related proposal: a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. moncler down Other proposals grew out of more recent concerns. military involvement in the United Nations peacekeeping missions reflected Republican criticism of Clinton s decisions to send troops to Somalia and Haiti. The contract met with mixed results in 1995. The House Republican leadership did indeed put each item to a vote within the first one hundred days. It divided each item into one or more bills, and thirty one of the resulting thirty two measures passed one, for congressional term limits, failed. The Senate moved much more slowly. In part, this was because the Senate, as a debating body, customarily proceeds more cautiously. Another reason was that the senators, unlike their first year counterparts in the House, were far less eager to pass sweeping reforms: the Senate killed the proposal for a constitutional amendment on the budget, for example, and simply delayed action on several other bills. L. No. 104 1, 109 Stat. 3), which requires Congress to follow eleven workplace laws; the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104 4, 109 Stat. 48), which restricts Congress from imposing mandates on states that are not adequately funded; and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. No. 104 13, 109 Stat. 163), which reduces federal paperwork requirements

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