Word: domenici
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PETE DOMENICI...
Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole had the final say in choosing the remaining four Republicans on the commission: Pete Domenici, the ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee; Bill Frenzel, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee; Donald Rumsfeld, who served as Defense Secretary under President Gerald Ford; and Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Democratic leaders of the House and Senate chose their own batch of household names: Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn; Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL- CIO; and Robert Strauss, former chairman of the Democratic National...
...anticlimax pervaded the White House briefing room. "This agreement is probably not the best deal that could be made," said Reagan, "but it is a good, solid beginning." House Speaker Jim Wright struck a conciliatory note: "Everybody gives some, nobody gets everything he wants." Later New Mexico's Pete Domenici, a seasoned veteran of the Reagan era's most bruising budget battles, fairly sighed with resignation: "What we have done is what can be done...
Foley denied that Social Security delays were "on the table" and Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, told reporters that "none of the automatic cost-of-living indexes are being seriously considered at this point...
...expenditures, along with the Administration's determination to spare large categories like defense and Social Security, have forced budget cutters "to work in an impossibly small corner covering only 30% of the spending total," observes TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin in his recent book, The National Debt. A frustrated Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee during 1981, told Reagan, "You can't get $100 billion in savings out of this little bitty piece that's left. You got money in there for feeding babies, for building roads, for cancer research, for the national parks, the FBI. We'll help...