News In Brief  By , Lance Carden, and Vic Roberts  The US
Democratic and GOP congressional leaders were to meet with
President Clinton to discuss taxes. Officials said they would
take stock of where the budget process stands, rather than
broach new ideas. House and Senate conferees also were working
out tax issues. The lawmakers are trying to reconcile
differences in their respective bills in time for Congress to
pass final tax legislation before its August recess.  Democratic
fund-raiser John Huang may have had a formal relationship with
an ex-employer while working at the Commerce Department and the
Democratic National Committee, Republican investigators said.
Heading into a second week of Senate hearings on campaign fund-
raising abuses, Governmental Affairs Committee sources said they
had obtained a registration form for a March 1996 World Bank
conference on which Huang is listed as an "adviser" to the Lippo
Group. The committee wants to know whether Huang used his
position at Commerce to provide sensitiv