Word: bill
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...touch with the mainstream Bush is. In 1986, the administration's budget proposed cutting student financial aid by $20 billion over a period of four years. There was bipartisan opposition to this measure. The administration also backed an amendment to the Department of Education appropriations bill that would have cut education funding by more than $800 million. The majority of voting Republicans rejected the amendment...
...administration tried to eliminate $900 million from mlow-income housing funds contained in the Housing and Community Development Act. And it supported a substitute to the Catastrophic Health Care bill which would have sliced benefits in half, raised seniors' out-of-pocket expenses, and eliminated the Democratic bill's drug subsidization provisions, which would reduce the financial burden of catastrophic illness...
WHAT makes this all so maddening is that Bush wants to be the "education president," tries to take credit for what he considers a booming housing market, and even boasts about the Catastrophic Health Care bill. He is trying to claim responsibility for the same Democratic legislation that he fought against...
Bush even tried to take credit for legislation he worked to repeal. To address the problems of the homeless, Bush suggested creating federally funded clinics to ease deinstitutionalization for the mentally ill. What Bush didn't mention was that a bill had already been passed to do exactly that; the Mental Health Systems Act was signed into law by President Carter in 1980. Once of Reagan's first executive acts in early 1981 was to insist that it be eliminated from the budget. Bush has no right to call for more clinics for the mentally ill; were...
Though the three groups have performed on the same bill before, the Carnegie Hall concert will mark the first time that all three will sing a song together. The concert will close with a performance in unison of a spiritual called "By and By." Larsen says that although the groups have been rehearsing the song individually, they will not get to practice together until right before the show. But he adds that he envisions few problems because of the song's simplicity and the singers' talents...