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Article: GOP Plans Counteroffensive on Labor; AFL-CIO's $35 Million Mobilization Program Is Theme for a Day
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- The Washington Post
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- March 22, 1996
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The battle between the Republican Party and organized labor
escalated sharply yesterday as GOP leaders intensified their attacks
on an unprecedented AFL-CIO political mobilization plan.
"The AFL-CIO has announced they will spend $35 million this
year to try to buy back the House of Representatives for the
Democrats," Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour
said at a breakfast meeting with reporters, the first shot in a
day-long series of exchanges.
Barbour used the labor program, along with the fact that
President Clinton has far more money to spend now than prospective
GOP nominee Robert J. Dole, to justify an RNC-financed
counterattack:
"We as a party are going to ...