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...Project lists the groups that supported "senior committee members last cycle," and whether they gave more to the Democrats, the Republicans, or to both equally. Among those groups receiving an "unfriendly" rating were some that would appear to be natural ideological allies of the g.o.p. revolution, like agri-giant Archer Daniels Midland and pacs for Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. When word of the guide leaked, furious lobbyists denounced it as "an enemies list," a violation of the Washington custom that you can do the fandango with just about anybody if it will help your cause...
Sick and tired of paying your income taxes? Bill Archer (R-Tx.) wants to make it so you never have to do it again.Declaring the federal income tax "too broken to be fixed,"the House Ways and Means Committee chairman has begun a week of hearings aimed at junking the 82-year-old system. In its place, Archer would institute a national sales tax or some other way of raising revenue. Just to make sure his plan sticks, he wants to repeal the16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax in the first place. Legislators do not expect...
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee pressed the Clinton Administration to take the first crack at avolatile Medicare overhaul, but Democrats weren't biting. At a hearing today, Committee chairman Bill Archer (R-Tx.) accused the White House of holding the $175 billion Medicare program "hostage" to its insistence on broader health reforms. But Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, testifying before the panel, fired back by suggesting the GOP was simply exaggerating Medicare's fiscal problems as an excuse to slash $300 billion by 2002 in order to fund tax cuts and balance the budget...
...desperation and imminent collapse. "When you get to the point where you have government snooping in people's drawers and talking to neighbors, you know that something has gone desperately wrong with the system," says Stephen Moore, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute. Representative Bill Archer of Texas, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, observes that the irs stirs more resentment than ever because "it has been given more power, more penalties." All of which only furthers his cause of radical reform. "Any discontent with the current income-tax system," he says sunnily, "is going...
Cabot House. Soprano Ellen Archer andPianist Michael Strauss perform cabaret songs byWeill, Gershwin, Piaf, Coward and Porter. CabotHouse Living Room...