Word: doled
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...introduced a bill last month in the state legislature to prevent the outright sale of children. On the national level, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas last month proposed a bill that will limit fees for arranging adoptions and restrict interstate adoptions. Until some action is taken, however, the courts in South Carolina have the last word. At Katrina's adoption hearing last week, Judge Robert Mallard made his leanings clear. "No one is contesting the adoption, and the child is obviously well cared for," he said. "What am I to do? Undo the bonds of love that have already...
Several influential Congressmen, however, are beginning to look for ways to bring the deficit under control. In the Senate, this group includes Republicans Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Finance Committee, and Pete Domenici of New Mexico, chairman of the Budget Committee. Dole's committee voted last week to set a $100 billion three-year deficit-cutting goal. Dole can count on support from such leading Democratic Senators as Russell Long of Louisiana and Presidential Candidate Fritz Rollings of South Carolina...
...longtime cronies from California. Running unopposed in his own party, Reagan can make use of all the brainpower available to the Republicans, tapping talent nurtured by the crowded 1980 Republican field, and drawing on the best operatives across the nation. Whether they were once Ford men, Bush men, or Dole men, today these GOP politices have only one thing on their mind-the reelection of Ronald Reagan...
...Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole still has to appear before the subcommittee for funding sometime in late March or early April," Ralph added, noting that the proposed budget cuts cannot be approved until then...
...deficit will be another focus of controversy, and not all of it will be partisan. Kansas Republican Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is planning to bring up again a plan to cut the deficit by $150 billion over three years through a combination of less military spending, slower growth in entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, and major tax increases. In the Democratic-controlled House, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski is willing to support a bill for a tax boost "as high...