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President Clinton has his way in many major disputes over federal spending, while the Republican Congress has ruled on fiscal issues on which they are the lowest.

It seems that the secret of success announced tonight fiscal policy and chief negotiator of the White House and Capitol Hill.

Mr. Clinton has received large amounts of money for child health insurance, national prosperity and other programs.

Republicans have a $ 500-a-Child Tax Credit, the heart of their 1994 contract with the USA, while concessions to the White House to ensure that low-income families would be the advantages of these loans.

Republicans have received a deep cut in capital gains tax, like attend. They received a greater reduction of taxes as property Mr. Clinton wanted them. And it won new authority for seniors schaffen”medizinische Sparkonten”anstelle standard Medicare program.

Many elements of the transaction, including the requirement of a balanced budget by the year 2002, and was designed primarily by Republicans. But the best articulation of these ideas to a large extent to pressure from the White House negotiators, led Republicans on the left.

As part of a budget agreement was signed on May 2 Franklin D. Raines, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Treasury Secretary, and Robert E. Rubin Congress inundated with letters critical comments on every detail of the Republicans’ budget bills and taxes.

White House officials said they were surprised by some of his victories in the negotiations. And they had every reason to be satisfied surprised.

In his February budget, Mr. Clinton has demanded $ 15 billion over the next five years to provide health insurance for children and unemployed workers. Congress reached an agreement today to $ 24 billion, as the Senate wanted, but as $ 16 billion, as the house.

The money is the most effective way of new federal investments in health care for children since the creation of Medicaid in 1965.

On two tax issues, Mr. Bill Clinton implementation. He persuaded the Republicans over $ 35 billion in tax credits and other tax incentives for students in the next five years.

The Republicans were also convinced that the large increase in cigarette taxes to finance health insurance for children. The increase is less than M. Clinton wanted, but far more than political insiders had predicted in March, when senators Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, and Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, began his crusade for a new Children’s Health Program.

If Mr. Clinton announced on July 31, 1996, that the Republicans, he signed “animal protection bill, reversing six decades of social policy just waited it will succeed in restoring disability benefits to legal immigrants . From that day in April this year, the President, in his efforts appeared to have a little chance of success; Republicans have said they do nothing to reopen or undermine the 1996 law.

But in recent days, verneigte Republicans in the White House and recovery services agreed to a larger group of legal immigrants than the president or Congress had proposed. The compromise still has advantages, have received the Supplemental Security Income last August, and those who have been and will then be deactivated.

The cost of these services is the recovery of approximately $ 11.4 billion over five years, almost half of all economies, was have been affected by the limit benefits for immigrants under of the 1996 Act.

Mr. Clinton also convinced that Republicans continue Medicaid for children with disabilities lose benefits under the 1996 Act on the well-being. The absence of such a release, had lost many children with Medicaid benefits for their disability.

The action of Mr. Clinton’s success can be measured by comments from observers at two opposite ends of the political spectrum. Senator Kennedy, a liberal Democrat, said the budget, which was a Meilenstein”Erfolg for children’s health.”Robert Rector, Senior Policy Analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the bill contains provisions on welfare vertreten”eine decisive liberal victory.