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...believe that voters won't care if the rich get richer - as long as they do too. Democrats, who have their own, more modest program, remain critical: "This is the most reckless policy I have seen pursued by any President in my adult life," fumed Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. Reckless or not, the plan is likely to move rapidly through the House of Representatives, where the Republicans are comfortably in control. The Senate will be tougher, since moderate Republicans also worry about the size of the cuts. The result is likely...
...individual Indians and families, vocational training and child welfare. While TPA funding is a small fraction of the BIA's total spending on Native Americans, it underscores how awry the system has gone. In President Bush's 2003 budget proposal, the 28,000 Turtle Mountain Chippewa in North Dakota, 68% of whom are unemployed, will receive the equivalent of an average $154 each. But the 400 members of the Miccosukee Tribe in Florida, whose Miccosukee Resort and Gaming Center rakes in an estimated $75 million a year, will collect $2,858 per person--almost 19 times as much. In South...
...LOSING HAND. Revenue from gaming is so lopsided that Indian casinos in five states with almost half the Native American population--Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota--account for less than 3% of all casino proceeds. On average, they produce the equivalent of about $400 in revenue per Indian. Meanwhile, casinos in California, Connecticut and Florida--states with only 3% of the Indian population--haul in 44% of all revenue, an average of $100,000 per Indian. In California, the casino run by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians pulls in well over $100 million a year...
...that 26 states had lowered their revenue estimates for the rest of the fiscal year. "2003 will be a year of tough policy decisions," says Bill Pound, the group's executive director. The only states saying their budgets are on sounder footing are Florida, Hawaii, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming...
...away from Daschle--before the new Congress is seated in January. "We're offering to be helpful to [Barkley] in any way we can," Lott told TIME. The White House is interested too: on Thursday Lott received a call from Cheney, who was on a hunting trip in South Dakota. Lott told Cheney he was working on Barkley. The two traded hunting stories. "Did you bag any Democrats out there?" Lott cracked...