Word: domenici
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...additional loan guarantees to farmers, plus $100 million to help banks reduce interest rates for farmers in trouble. In a second, closer vote, the Senate agreed to advance farmers 50% of the price-support loans they normally get in the fall, after crops are harvested. An infuriated Pete Domenici of New Mexico, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called the second bill a "giveaway" that will benefit wealthy farmers as much as those on the edge of bankruptcy. Both Senate measures were passed as amendments to a $175 million African famine relief bill. Democrats in the House, in the meantime...
...enacting a budget that will significantly reduce swollen deficits, and pushing through sweeping tax reform. Both efforts will require the kind of bipartisan cooperation within Congress and with the White House that was sadly lacking in the farm-credit fight. Choosing a military metaphor, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici said of the farm-loan battle: "This is just the first barrage of the political year...
Majority Leader Dole began grappling with specifics last week in an extraordinary meeting with Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, the chairmen of the other 14 major Senate committees and the rest of the Senate G.O.P. leadership. After two hours they adjourned, having sketched out just the bare-bones outline of a plan. The centerpiece of their proposal, Dole announced, would probably be a one-year across-the-board budget freeze at fiscal-1985 levels on almost all Government spending, including defense funding and entitlement programs like Social Security. The only exemption would be means-tested programs for the poor, such...
Weinberger was welcomed back to Washington with a litany of warnings. "I don't believe you can put together a realistic package without including defense," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici. Insisted the newly elected Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole: "Substantial reductions should be forthcoming from the defense budget." From within the Administration, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan led a rearguard action. "It would be very difficult to pass the budget without having defense as part of the package," he said publicly...
Dole, a self-described moderate conservative, emerged victorious from a field of five contenders. Idaho Conservative James McClure was eliminated on the first ballot. (The election rules required that the candidate receiving the fewest votes on each ballot be dropped from the next round.) Pete Domenici of New Mexico was knocked off on the second ballot, and Richard Lugar of Indiana on the third...