Word: domenici
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollings for making a "brave and courageous" speech and, by reacting favorably, signaled his willingness to strike a bipartisan compromise-and slash those deficits. But at the same time, Baker began urging his fellow Republicans to hold their fire against Reagan's budget. New Mexico's Pete Domenici, G.O.P. chairman of the Budget Committee, retreated from public view so thoroughly that Hollings joked to reporters: "He's hiding from you guys...
...trim his sacred defense budget and propose new taxes. Should the White House still not act, it will be even more difficult, if not impossible, for the Republican leadership to muster the votes to raise the debt ceiling when that becomes necessary this summer. Laments Republican Senator Pete Domenici, chairman of the budget committee, in a decided understatement: "It's obviously going to be a very difficult year...
...same time, the House vote was far short of the two-thirds necessary to override a veto, and Congressmen took the threat of a veto as no bluff. Said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico: "Reagan wants the Congress and the country to know he is serious about budget cutting." Within the White House, there were some qualms that a veto might make Reagan look like a wild man willing to produce governmental chaos if he did not get his way. Said one aide: "People might ask, 'What kind...
...lonely, fight against the Stockman-endorsed tax hikes. Stockman had worked with Senate Republican leaders to outline an $84 billion package of tax increases, largely on consumer items, over three years. The Budget Director's hope was to have the big tax hikes emerge from Chairman Pete Domenici's Senate Budget Committee, thereby taking some of the onus for the increases off the White House. But Regan apparently convinced the President that such huge tax increases would mean that the Federal Government would be spending almost as much of the gross national product at the end of Reagan...
...Wednesday, Stockman privately passed the word to Domenici that the President had to oppose tax increases publicly, but that the Budget Committee chairman should not abandon his tax increase plans. Regan on the same day met with key Republican Senators in Majority Leader Howard Baker's office and made a strong pitch against tax hikes, insisting that the entire Reagan economic program would "lose credibility" if big increases were enacted. But the Senators were not convinced. Said one, referring to the President: "We have to get it from the man himself...