Clinton budget aims to aid parents and students nationwide
President Clinton proposes broad tax credits and grants to help families from infants to undergraduates. The plan includes a $250 child credit for under one, up to $1250 more Pell grants, 4.4 percent military pay raise, 22 billion for school construction, 2,200 charter schools, extended student loan interest deduction, and new Medicare access for younger workers. It also targets the chronically ill, disabled workers, and low income seniors while increasing tobacco taxes to fund various programs.
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Ashington
Clinton
Post College
Plan boosts USDA spending by Clinton budget details
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman outlines a FY 2000 USDA budget totaling 55.2 billion dollars, an 18 percent drop since Clinton took office. Key items include 3 billion for farm loans, 268 million for land and forest protection, 10 billion for child nutrition, 16 million for community food recovery, 11 billion for rural support, and a 30 percent reduction in field offices as part of department restructuring.
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Environment
Coast Guard
Marlene Lucas
Gazette Rural Affairs
Clinton
America
Agriculture
Dan Glickman
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Glickman
GOP vows to rework budget for tax cuts
The GOP pledges to reshape Clinton’s 2000 budget to prioritize tax cuts. President Clinton unveils a 1.77 trillion dollar plan aiming to shore up Social Security, reduce debt, and fund programs, while Republicans demand large surpluses be returned as tax-rate cuts. They clash over how to use the projected 2.41 trillion surplus over a decade.
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Washington
Clinton
Congress
House
Dennis Hastert
Illinois
Senate Budget Committee
Pete Domenici
Rn.m
Resignation of CRMA director shocks staff and allies
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art director Doe resigns in a move that surprised staff and cultural partners. The board approved the resignation and will launch a national search for a new director. Doe had led major exhibits and free opening receptions during her tenure, with colleagues calling her a transformative leader. Prior roles included posts at Washburn Mulvane Art Museum, Rockford Art Museum, and Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
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Stone
Doe
CRMA
Washburn University
Mulvane Art Museum
Topeka
Kan
Rockford (Il
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Lincoln
Neb
Cedar Rapids to raise taxes for coliseum repairs and street work
The city plans a 1.9 percent tax rate increase centered on a 15 cent boost to the Veterans Memorial Commission levy funding the coliseum on May's Island. The commission had sought 48 cents but pared back to fund renovations at the coliseum, including a new roof and fire protection. About $24 million in capital street funding was approved, with $6 million from general obligation bonds. About 18 full-time equivalent positions will be added, mainly in parks and engineering, boosting the city payroll and keeping Cedar Rapids among Iowa's lower tax rates once budgets are certified in mid March.
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Veterans Memorial Commission
May’s Island
Nue
Don Thomas
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Clinton impeachment session yields brief questioning
Clinton lawyers apologized and dodged questions during a short hearing that ran far under the eight hours allotted. Six senators watched as Bryant pressed for specifics while videotape viewing began for Senate members. Vernon Jordan and Sidney Blumenthal faced private depositions, and a separate complaint sought contempt findings against Ken Starr.
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Lewinsky
Bryant
Vernon Jordan
White House
Sidney Blumenthal
Capitol
Nicole Seligman
Seligman
Clinton
Jordan deposition tests House managers in Clinton case
Washington Post reports Vernon Jordan faces a tough credibility test for House impeachment managers as his grand jury testimony on Monica Lewinsky and the Clinton relationship shifts across appearances. The witness emphasizes independence of job efforts from any sexual entanglement while acknowledging later details and moments that could be used to question his consistency.
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Clinton
Starr
Times
Capitol
Lewinsky
Senate
Paula Jones
Jones
Bryant
House
Mayflower
Plato Cacheris
Washington
Washington Post
Vernon Jordan
Asa Hutchinson
Rark
Jordan
Hutchinson
Betty Currie
Vernon
Currie
Monica Lewinsky
White House
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