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Oklahoma's David Boren, who thinks the deal relies too heavily on taxes, has been getting the VIP treatment: he met with Clinton on Saturday, with David Gergen on Sunday, spoke with chief of staff Mack McLarty on Monday, and even received a prized visit from Janet Reno on Tuesday. Two days later, he had lunch with Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Boren seems to be undergoing something of a personal crisis over the vote, talking at length to nearly everyone and acknowledging, "This isn't fun for me. Everyone is very cordial to my face, then I hear they...
...public relations firm, to deploy nearly 45 staff members in 23 states during the past two months. Burson's goal was to drum up as much grass-roots outrage about the BTU tax as possible and direct it at the swing Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, including David Boren of Oklahoma, Max Baucus of Montana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, John Breaux of Louisiana and Thomas Daschle of South Dakota. The goal was to win at least one Democratic vote; that would be enough to stop the tax in the Finance Committee, where the Democrats hold...
That was the moment when Clinton truly understood his economic plans would be dramatically rewritten in a shadowy hallway on the fourth floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, where Moynihan dwells at one end and Oklahoma's bumptious David Boren resides at the other. The round of frantic conferences began among the Finance Committee's Democrats and White House handlers. The White House designated Secretary Bentsen to ride shotgun on Moynihan. But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing. Besides, there is the underlying suspicion that Bentsen is really...
...also finally reached out to embrace conservative members of his own party, among them Senators John Breaux and David Boren, whose warnings over his stimulus package he had blithely ignored two months ago, dooming it to defeat. Breaux has now become the President's ally in getting his economic plan through the Senate Finance Committee, where Democrats hold only 11 out of 20 seats. Just as liberals bemoan Clinton's new tack, the Louisiana Senator applauds it. At home last week, as he rode along in his white van toward a forum at H.L. Bourgeois High School in Gray, Louisiana...
...spite of the odds against them, Clinton's team is oddly sanguine about the coming Senate fight, set to begin on June 7 when the Finance Committee takes up the House-passed bill. The chief obstacle is Boren, from oil-rich Oklahoma, who opposes the energy tax and is the pivotal vote on the panel. Administration officials believe they may still pick off Boren, but Democrats on Capitol Hill are already talking darkly of retribution if he doesn't fall into line. One likely target: the Senator, regarded as pompous and self- important even by Senate standards, helped create...