Word: doled
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Later Thursday evening, the bill moved into the Senate, where the White House felt confident of its chances. Again, it was backed by a collection of strange bedfellows. "How does it feel to be rescued by Teddy Kennedy?" a colleague teased Senator Robert Dole, the Kansas Republican who fashioned the original bill. Actually, the wholehearted support of Senator Kennedy and other liberals was no laughing matter, since it threatened to alienate potential conservative backers. Majority Leader Howard Baker quietly sent a message to Democratic leaders asking them to restrain any public proclamations from colleagues. As it turned out, eleven Republicans...
...predawn passage of the measure was an unexpected consequence of a proposal by the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Robert Dole of Kansas, to improve the reporting of tips at hotels and restaurants. The Treasury Department believes that perhaps $10 billion in tips is not reported as income every year. After his tip provision was defeated during...
Senate floor debate on the tax bill, Dole rammed through the lunch measure, which some liberal Democrats have long favored...
...Dole has not only recovered from that 1976 loss, his first ever at the polls, but from his public defense of Nixon during the Watergate period. Nixon had named Dole Chariman of the Republican National Committee in 1971 and, luckily for Dole, bypassed him to give the Committee for the Re-Election of the President the chore of running his 1972 campaign. When C.R.P. became deeply involved in Watergate, Dole played good soldier and defended Nixon publicly. "I was sort of a two-gun guy, and if anybody would toss anything in the air, I'd take a shot...
...Senator who has seized power rather than a mere lampooning critic of others who hold it, Dole has mellowed and matured. But he still goes his own way, shunning rigid ideology and seeking consensus for what he thinks will work. The tax bill showed Dole at his best, pulling Reagan and the White House toward a much needed package of selective tax increases, while fending off New York Republican Congressman Jack Kemp and other unbending advocates of supply-side economics. Dole also bucked the opposition of Republican stalwarts in the said and financial communities. "If you want...