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An 8 page paper exploring some of the issues before the 105th Congress, which convened January 7, 1997. For the first time in 68 years, the Congress was controlled by the Republicans for the second consecutive year, though not by the margin they enjoyed before the 1996 November elections. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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is still Speaker of the House. "House Majority Leader Dick Armey (Tex.), House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (Tex. ) and House Republican Conference Chairman John A. Boehner (Ohio) were
reelected without opposition" (Anderson PG). The Democratic side made no changes in their primary leadership posts, either. "The Democratic House leadership includes House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.),
House Minority Whip David E. Bonoir (Mich.) and Democratic Caucus Chairman Vic Fazio (Calif.)"(Anderson PG). The Congressional Black Caucus has elected Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif. ) as its chairwoman for
the upcoming year. Known to be "among the most liberal, and vocal, members of Congress" (Anderson PG), she has taken the lead in calling for investigations of a possible
link between the spread of crack cocaine in black Los Angeles neighborhoods and the CIA-a possibility reported by the San Jose Mercury News (Anderson PG). Anticipated Problems and
Actions The overall focus of the 105th Congress is that of bipartisan consensus (Anderson PG; Warner 25). Both Speaker Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) have agreed
that President Clinton should have the opportunity to first tackle Medicare and budget issues. The other "priority issues for the new Congress will include campaign finance reform, education, tax
cuts and health care" (Anderson PG). Though there is much talk of eliminating the Affirmative Action policies (or at least reforming them), Anderson believes that seeing the issue taken
on by the 105th Congress is doubtful. He points to the combined effects of the resignation of Bob Dole as the Senate Majority Leader and the almost-certainty of presidential
veto as the reasons (PG). As a lead-in prior to taking on the whole Affirmative Action issue, it is likely that there will be issues raised that are along the
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