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In a narrow but critical victory for President Clinton's economic plan, the House passed his deficit-reduction package of tax increases and spending cuts in a 219-213 vote. After frenzied eleventh-hour lobbying, the White House persuaded just enough Democrats to support the program, which is intended to reduce the deficit $500 billion over five years. The House was supposed to be the easy chamber for Clinton; the battle there suggests that the struggle for passage in the Senate may be all the more ferocious.
Moving to shore up his shaky White House staff, Clinton hired former Reagan communications chief David Gergen...
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