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...Clinton has proposed a host of tax increases and disguised hefty new spending programs as "investments." Rather than reduce entitlements, he nearly succeeded in creating a program to provide free immunization for children, regardless of income. Asked last week if Clinton really was a "New Democrat," Oklahoma Senator David Boren replied, "That's the $64,000 question. We just don't know...
...revolt at a meeting with the House Democratic caucus and the party congressional leadership. "If you'll go out on a limb," he told them, "I'll go out with you." But a more dangerous mutiny began in the Senate, where a bipartisan group led by Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma agreed on a plan to cap entitlements and kill Clinton's proposed energy...
...David Boren. Thorn-of-the-moment in Clinton's side, Boren, a conservative Democrat who represents the oil state of Oklahoma on the Senate Finance Committee, led last week's bipartisan Senate revolt against the Administration's tax plan. At a press conference he and three fellow rebels -- Democrat Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and Republicans John Danforth of Missouri and William Cohen of Maine -- unveiled a plan of their own. The so- called Boren-Danforth amendment features lower taxes and more spending cuts than the President's proposal, as well as a cap on entitlements spending. The Boren-Danforth bill...
When the soft-spoken Boren opposes something, people listen. Senators James Exon and Bob Kerrey, both Democrats from Nebraska, said they backed the "basic thrust" of his plan. Still, a number of putative dissidents -- notably John Breaux of Louisiana and Kent Conrad of North Dakota -- declined to sign on to the amendment. Thus while Boren may be able to muster enough Democratic votes to join with Republicans in forcing Clinton to change his plan, there is little chance that the Boren-Danforth proposal can pass. Said Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "The Boren...
...Democrat" while Bill Clinton was still in Yale Law School, has fired a few broadsides of his own at the Clinton White House. Now, though, he may be able to help salvage the President's deficit-reduction package. Moynihan is passionately opposed to entitlement caps, and charges that the Boren-Danforth amendment would cut the "earned benefits" of more than 15 million Social Security recipients...