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GOP holds Senate, Mrs. Clinton and late Missouri governor make history

...incumbents fell, four of them Republican. Losing were Republicans John Ashcroft of Missouri, Rod Grams of Minnesota, William Roth of Delaware and Spencer Abraham of Michigan, along with Charles Robb, the only endangered Democrat. With winners...

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Senate clears way for Tuesday vote on China trade

...China's markets and give American businesses and farmers the chance to significantly increase their sales. Sen. William Roth, R-Del., a chief advocate, cited figures estimating that the new relationship would result in $13 billion in...

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Reign of terror

...that there is nothing in the reform legislation that says the IRS is not to enforce our tax law,'' said Chairman William Roth, who led the attack on the agency that helped produce the bill. ''The fact is that we want to make sure that in...

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GOP tax cut for couples approved by Senate

...taxpayers. "The issue is whether he will or won't grant America's families the tax relief they deserve," said Sen. William Roth, R-Del., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. "Let's divorce the marriage penalty from the tax code once...

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House speaker pushing to keep Medicaid loophole open By JANELLE CARTER

...care budget. Hastert's effort has put him at odds with a pair of top Republicans in the Senate -- Delaware Sen. William Roth, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senate GOP Whip Don Nickles of Oklahoma. Roth, saying the loophole...

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Spending money we don't have

...the results he produced for his state, not on his rhetoric. That is why he was able to defeat a popular incumbent, William Roth, in their gentlemanly Senate election campaign. And it is why he looked at the so-called stimulus bill that whisked...

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Senate casts politically important votes on gas tax, wildlife preserve

...National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. An effort by Sen. William Roth, R-Del., to erase that provision was on the verge...environmentalists against the oil industry and its allies. Sen. William Roth, R-Del., said the preserve should be protected...

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'Marriage-penalty' tax cut nears passage

...marriage-tax relief, and we will see who thinks American families are not entitled to this relief,'' said Sen. William Roth, R-Del., the Senate Finance Committee chairman. Clinton has said he could sign the measure into law only under...

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Senate votes repeal of earnings ceiling

...elderly workers 65 through 69 lose $1 in Social Security benefits for every $3 in wages they make above $17,000. ''The earnings limit is part of a bygone era,'' said the Senate Finance Committee chairman, Sen. William Roth, R-Del.

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Senate loads antipoverty bill with pet projects

...billion when it passed the House this summer to $28.7 billion by Tuesday, when Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth, R-Del., released a version with new tax credits for Amtrak and companies providing high-speed Internet access...

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