Word: domenici
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decisions on taxes will come if the blitz fails and Congress continues to be skeptical about the President's plans. Despite the official no-compromise hard line, talk of alternatives floats around Washington. There is speculation about a two-year tax cut, and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico has suggested stretching the Reagan tax cuts over four years rather than three to minimize the effect on deficits; this idea has attracted some Administration interest...
...mere four days, the committee voted to reduce planned expenditures in fiscal 1982, which starts Oct. 1, by $36.4 billion-actually $2.3 billion more than Reagan asked.* Combining bluster and blarney, Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico easily held his eleven fellow Republicans together against all attempts by the ten Democrats to narrow reductions in social programs. Frustrated and divided, the Democrats in the end joined in a unanimous vote for the full package. "We are wreaking unbelievable havoc on the lives of millions of poor Americans," mourned Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum -just before he meekly murmured...
...liberal Democrats would vote to keep Social Security pensions and veterans' benefits from rising quite as fast as the CPI. In return, conservative Republicans just might go along with the Democrats in reducing the cuts in health, nutrition and other programs for the poor. New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, indicates support for such a compromise and predicts that Reagan might accept it too. Indeed, some congressional cynics suggest that the President is trying to maneuver them into taking the blame for cuts in Social Security and veterans' benefits that they believe...
...serious congressional action, however, has never been greater. For the first time in 28 years the G.O.P. controls the Senate, and a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats may dominate the House. Strong advocates of spending curbs have taken over the reins of the two budget committees: Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico in the Senate and Democrat James Jones of Oklahoma in the House. Jones is already urging a budget reduction of $30 billion, and Domenici's staff has drawn up a 43-page compendium of 197 possible cuts. Says Domenici: "The truth of the matter is that...
...Domenici believes that Reagan will ask Congress to defer or cancel expenditures for some programs already approved, which would involve only minor tinkering with...