Word: congress
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Fiscal year 2000 begins Oct. 1, and Congress, unwilling to dip into Social Security surpluses, is desperately searching for an additional $20 billion to spend without exceeding the already maxed-out 1997 budget caps. A look at the more elegant proposals...
...Congress has plenty of work to do already, getting its vision of next year?s budget ready for the annual brouhaha with White House negotiators. So far, the Republicans have sent Clinton just four of the 13 spending bills for the coming fiscal year, and the White House has threatened vetoes of six of the others. Desperate for cash that won?t bust the spending caps and eat into the surplus (although that will certainly happen eventually), they?ve tapped $3 billion in unused state welfare money to make some ends meet, which has governors and Democrats screaming mugging. With...
...need wise spending decisions in times of plenty even more than when we were running huge deficits and there were fewer choices. So far both parties have dealt with the surplus disingenuously, seemingly too willing to sacrifice compromise for political advantage. This is no time for Congress to embrace our recent prosperity with ill-timed and ill-conceived measures...
...hope that the next budget cycle will bring real compromise, serious discussion, and close attention to the things all Americans value: social security, health care and education. A tax cut for the wealthy is not where our Congress' attention should be focused...
...money. "The industry regulation that the states won wasn?t as far-reaching as Clinton wanted, and the money they got isn?t going to smoking prevention," he says. "The administration is going to try to use a lawsuit as leverage to get the regulatory measures that failed in Congress, and also get in a slap at the Republicans for killing that bill." Indeed, a jury might find it hard to see the U.S. government as the victim. The generation that is these days dying of lung cancer and emphysema is the same one that went off to World...