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Robert and Elizabeth Dole [Jan. 17] are made for the presidency and vice presidency. I am ready to start the "Californians for Dole-Dole...
...called freeze should be applied more evenly across the board to defense is well as domestic spending. In addition, lamented Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico, "even with a freeze, you've still got a big deficit problem out there." Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole insisted that food stamps and health programs could be cut no further and rejected Reagan's proposal to impose a stand-by tax of about $50 billion a year starting Oct. 1, 1985, if deficits are still more than 2.5% of the G.N.P, or approximately 5100 billion. Majority Leader...
...order to get a freeze, we have to be fair about it," said G.O.P. Congressman Denny Smith of Oregon. "The President's plan isn't going anywhere." Republicans joined Democrats in insisting that cutting domestic programs in real-dollar terms (after accounting for inflation) was unacceptable. Dole suggested that more, not less, money was needed for child health programs. Republican Senators Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota and John Danforth of Missouri introduced a resolution to protect food stamps and child nutrition from further cuts...
...should be delayed or restricted, but the President regards as sacrosanct this third installment on the $750 billion tax cut passed in 1981. Other lawmakers, including Howard Baker, have suggested scrapping the indexing provision that, starting in 1985, will prevent tax rates from rising with inflation. Finance Committee Chairman Dole, however, defends indexing as "the best idea" of the 1981 Congress, and he could make its repeal very difficult. Nor is there a realistic chance for a tax increase this year if Reagan opposes it. Indeed, the only shred of bipartisan agreement is over Reagan's plan...
Some cynics might argue that the Senate is full of comedians, but no one doubts that Republican Robert Dole, 59, of Kansas is the upper house's current top banana. Dole was in excellent fettle last week at confirmation hearings for his wife Elizabeth Dole, 46, President Reagan's appointee to the post of Secretary of Transportation. "I feel like Nathan Hale," said he. "I regret that I have but one wife to give to my country's infrastructure." But he may have a challenger for the title of life of the party: California...