Abstract
What a difference a year—especially an election year—can make. Conciliation and cooperation may be this year's postelection theme in Congress, but last year at this time the government was shut down while President Clinton and Congress battled over how to balance the budget and over who was more devoted to meeting the country's needs. At the height of confrontation last year, several Cabinet agencies and several Administration technological programs were marked for elimination by the Republican Congress. Environmental protection was in disrepute in some circles. The free market as the solution to all ills was the key. Not since the darkest days of Watergate during the 1970s was the partisan scene so grim in Washington. But as the year went on, the mood changed. Sensing public disgust with the Washington spectacle, Congress reached agreement on a balanced budget. The Energy Department survived. Likewise the Department of Commerce. The industry-government initiative to reinvent the automobile ...
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