Word: across-the-board
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...tells me. House Republicans are resisting beginning conferences on any of the appropriations bills until they see all 13 that the Senate Democrats pass and how they've apportioned all the money. To get around being trapped in a defense-versus- Social Security box, Republicans are talking about across-the-board spending cuts...
...first of all, is safe. As a parting gift to Bush, Jeffords decreed that his switcheroo would not take effect until after Bush signs what will likely be a $1.35 trillion across-the-board cut that doles out long-term tax relief to each according to his income. But Jeffords, saying if he was going to disagree with Bush so much he might as well make it official, had a pretty long list of what would have been his future treacheries: Health care, energy, missile defense and the environment (not to mention the judiciary, choice, education "and a host...
President-elect George W. Bush may be relatively new to Washington, but when he came to town Monday with a $1.3 trillion across-the-board tax cut on his mind, he knew just the man whose ring he had to kiss first: Alan Greenspan, pontiff of the U.S. economy...
...Senate Democrats, whose entire rival tax cut proposal costs less than Bush's marginal rate cuts, would rather there be no across-the-board cuts at all. With a GOP majority in the House and Bush in the Oval Office, they'll have to start negotiating eventually. But when Baucus and the other 10 Democrats on the 20-member Senate Finance Committee sit around the table for hearings Wednesday, it'll be angry soundbite time...
...centerpiece of the Bush budget, of course, is the $1.6 trillion tax cut, and the rest of the government must bow down to it. Tuesday night, Bush will likely focus on the core of the plan he sent to the Hill earlier this month - the across-the-board marginal rate cuts - because the rest of it is up for negotiation, and anyway, the size is more important than the details...