NATION
Limping Toward a Budget
Democrats in the Senate and House stitched together a budget-plan compromise Friday evening -- with themselves. The party's conferees resolved most differences between the version passed earlier by the two chambers, but ended up fecklessly falling a bit short of the $500 billion deficit-reduction goal set by President Clinton. The key deal: limiting the gas-tax increase to 4.3 cents per gal. -- $33 per year for an average driver -- rather than the larger, broader energy tax that Clinton and the House Democrats had wanted. Republicans are expected to oppose the plan solidly, but Democratic leaders...
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