Word: brownback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What was a radical to do? For weeks, House G.O.P. freshman Sam Brownback of Kansas had been trying to find someone with seniority who would listen to the ideas that he and other new lawmakers had for going beyond the ``Contract with America.'' And for weeks, he had got the same perfunctory responses: ``Maybe later, after things settle down a bit''; ``Maybe after you've been around a bit longer''; ``Maybe Maybe Maybe '' Then Brownback got a phone call from Budget Committee chairman John Kasich. Said Kasich: ``Okay, you want to start a revolution? We'll start a revolution...
...Brownback, the freshman-class president, hastily rounded up as many of his fellow newcomers as he could find and trooped over to Kasich's office. There they learned that their radical ideas were not quite as radical as the chairman's. Not only had Kasich thought of many of them himself, but he wanted to up the bidding. So, the freshmen wanted to eliminate three Cabinet departments? Why not four? How about adding the Commerce Department, that gigantic bureaucracy whose main use has been to dispense patronage jobs and favors for campaign contributors...
...incoming crop of House members, Brownback said, Kasich found ``a chorus of angels singing to his soul.'' And last week, as the freshmen unveiled their plan to dismantle the Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing departments, Kasich stood with them. ``This is serious! This is real! And I love 'em all!'' the chairman crowed...