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...long way from Congress's original target of $100 billion or less by 1988. "We really haven't reduced the deficit all that much," said Dole on NBC's Today show. "It's a small step forward. It's not a big step." Complained Florida's Lawton Chiles, ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee: "Our problem is not the budget process. It's the absence of will." Congress, said Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, had gone "from winking to blinking to nod." For his part, Reagan promised to keep up the fight against letting new taxes creep into...
...This isn't a conference report," protested Oregon's Democratic Congressman Les AuCoin. "It's a surrender document." His House colleague, California Democrat Don Edwards, agreed. "The House was skunked," he complained. Their anger was directed at the outcome of a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences between the two chambers on next year's defense spending. The Senate had prevailed so overwhelmingly, with the unexpected concurrence of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, that House leaders decided to delay until after the recess a vote on the compromise military-spending package. Most galling of all, but perhaps...
...level the issue was money. Aspin, a Wisconsin Democrat, agreed to go along with the Senate's total $302.5 billion for the Pentagon, some $10 billion more than the House had approved. This provides a 3% increase in funding, thus allowing the Pentagon to keep pace with inflation. Aspin, who headed the House conferees, traded the higher figure for language forcing the services to re-examine their purchasing procedures and the rising costs of some of their major new weapons systems...
...Yasser Arafat, made it clear that he would not join a new coalition until Craxi clarified aspects of his foreign policy. Later Craxi hinted that he might try to form a coalition without Spadolini's Republicans, touching off a strong denunciation by his most crucial partner, the dominant Christian Democrat Party...
...learn to mix it up, stand up for yourself," says Merrill Kinstler, 41, a stock trader and close friend. "Older brothers are not going to cut you any slack. If you say something stupid, you figure, next time, I'm going to be better at it." Kinstler, an ex-Democrat who speaks with Coulter virtually every day, describes her as "a cat who thinks she's a dog. She's very much a woman, but she likes ... mixing it up in what I think is a very guy way. Let's put it this way. I have never heard from...