Notebook

By Kathleen Adams, Charlotte Faltermayer, Janice M. Horowitz,Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Tyler Maroney, Jodie Morse and Jeffery C. Rubin

Verbatim

"There is nothing wrong with Bob Dole's campaign that a good economic plan, a good Veep choice, a good convention speech and $74 million won't cure."
--John Buckley, Dole's communications chief, in the New Yorker

"I've been real busy...You know, it's not as exciting as the first one."
--Louisiana Governor Mike Foster to reporters after forgetting the name of his seventh grandchild

Winners & Losers

When The Gridlock Broke

[Winners]

Bill Clinton
Keeps promise of "ending welfare as we know it." But will it now be worse than we knew it?

Senators Kassebaum & Kennedy
Their portable-health-insurance bill, once stalled by the industry, wins final passage

Minimum Wage
After much wrangling, the 90[cent]-per-hour increase will at last become law

[& Losers]

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Thirty years of erudition on poverty shoved aside in what he calls "welfare repeal"

Legal Immigrants
Welfare bill will prohibit their receiving federal assistance until they become U.S. citizens

Campaign-Finance Reform
Bipartisan commission comes up empty, and House rejects Gingrich's compromise

Canned Goods

"I think Dole-Campbell sounds like part of a Safeway aisle"
--Political Pundit Chris Matthews On A G.O.P. Ticket Including Ex-South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, On Good Morning America