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...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 an 11-9 majority...
...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...
Bentsen and McLarty worked steadily behind the scenes last week to keep Louisiana Senator John Breaux quiet about his objections to the energy tax until the House vote was safely over. But eventually they realized they might do better enlisting the Senator to help broker a compromise to lessen the BTU tax's impact. Officials said House members' reservations would be taken into account when the Senate marks up its measure...
...exactly, does Clinton do that? The first step, a White House aide suggests, "is to adopt ((Louisiana Senator)) John Breaux's prescription." Breaux is trying to live up to the injunction of Clinton political adviser ) James Carville, who preaches that a lasting turnaround in Clinton's fortunes depends on rediscovering "what we're about." In other words, Clinton has to tack back to the center; he has to embrace, in law, the proposals that got him elected in the first place. Breaux understands the public's antipathy to taxes of any kind and, for openers, wants the President...
...Breaux's proposals form the basis of a compromise that ensures Senate passage of Clinton's economic plan -- and helps shred the tax-and-spend label that has contributed to the President's dive in the polls -- then a health- care-reform scheme that proves nonthreatening to business could fuel a sustained economic recovery. "The bad news is that the President's underlying liberal instincts could cause us to propose a health bill that takes care of the uninsured but does nothing to generate jobs," says a White House aide. "The good news is that it's largely...