Word: doled
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Harsh words even for sarcastic Robert Dole, perhaps; but the Senate Finance Committee chairman had special reason for annoyance. He had risked the wrath of farmers in his home state of Kansas to sponsor a bill freezing agricultural "target prices," only to see it shunted aside by a filibuster as Congress prepared for its August recess. To Dole that seemed all too symbolic of a refusal by both Congress and the White House to face the danger that $200 billion deficits will lead to an increase in interest rates that could kill off the economic recovery. Dole took the Senate...
...measure faced a Republican-controlled Senate and ultimately a presidential veto that Congress lacks votes to override. Last week, as expected, the Senate delivered the legislative coup de grâce to the cap by a 55 to 45 vote mostly along party lines. Observed Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, the Senate Finance Committee chairman: "This [vote] is probably a total political exercise." Indeed, as a campaign weapon for both sides, the lost cap will surely figure in the rhetoric...
...become law, the $720 cap would have added an estimated $6 billion to revenues in fiscal 1984. Now Congress must turn its attention to raising $73 billion in new taxes over the next three years as mandated by the $859 billion budget resolution passed two weeks ago. Said Senator Dole: "There is a lot of fat in the tax code that ought to be examined and tightened up." But Dole would be the first to agree that to raise $73 billion Congress would have to sew up an awful lot of loopholes...
Along with Elizabeth and Bob Dole, the Ruckelshauses have become one of the most visible and influential husband-and-wife teams in Washington. In contrast to Jill, Bill has been a quiet team player, moving to rehabilitate the EPA's reputation and employee morale, which were damaged by a spate of congressional investigations into political favoritism, conflict of interest and mismanagement of the toxic-waste program under former Chief Anne Burford...
Forty years ago, when a decent pair of what used to be called sneakers went for about $5, good college basketball players were about the size of say, Republican Senator Bob Dole, 59, who in his days at the University of Kansas was a guard when the school won the Big Six championship. Today the shoes would set you back $40 plus, and college basketball stars look more like Georgetown University's 7-ft. center Pat Ewing, 20. For the past two summers, Ewing has been playing down his awesome height in an attempt to assume the disguise...