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Article: Republicans takes first steps to cut back government's reach into lives of Americans. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- November 9, 1994
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WASHINGTON _ Fresh from their historic election landslide, Republicans Wednesday took the first steps toward delivering on their promise to cut back dramatically the government's reach into the lives of Americans.
Emboldened conservatives said they have the opportunity to reverse 60 years of reliance on big government that started with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal but now seems out of sync with the views of a skeptical public.
The leaders of that revolution, incoming Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., and incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., pledged to work with President Clinton _ as long as he meets them on their side of the ideological divide.
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