Word: domenici
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) -- two of Washington's most steadfast deficit hawks -- today proposed legislation to permit Americans to deduct every dollar they save and invest. The plan, asimplification of the tax codealong the lines of the Individual Retirement Account, arrives just as federal income tax reform is shaping up as a major issue in the1996 presidential election. GOP senators and White House hopefulsRichard Lugar of IndianaandArlen Specter of Pennsylvaniahave already embraced a "flat tax," andBob Doleis thinking it over...
Republican lawmakers today unveiled plans to cut government health care costs by putting the brakes onMedicare and Medicaid growth. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) said during testimony in the House that he wants to slow Medicare's 10 percent annual growth rate to 7 percent or less, while cutting Medicaid growth from 10 percent to 5 percent. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said a "reasonable cap" on Medicaid growth would be "well below 8 percent" if the program isturned over to the states, an idea being discussed with governors.TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompsonsays the GOP is hoping...
...local governance and part-time legislators (if you are a fan) or the social miseries of the 1920s and pollution of the 1970s (if you are not). Said Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic pollster: ``This is the opening debate over the radical Republican agenda.'' Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici's analysis was simultaneously more sanguine and more portentous: it might mark a change in ``how we define the role of the Federal Government in the next century...
...sometimes local economics frustrate change. The park service's attempts to remove a luncheonette and gift shop in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns have ignited protests from the state's congressional delegation, though the contract has expired. Babbitt ventured up to Capitol Hill to tell Senator Pete Domenici his decision was final, only to watch Representative Joseph Skeen slip through an amendment in an appropriations bill, depriving the park service of the money to tear down the structure. Conservationists call such meddling "park barrel," alluding to the politicians' talent for stuffing budgets with pork for voters back home...
Some other proposed changes seem more promising, at least on paper. Last year Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico introduced a bill to shorten the ordeal. It would require the President to submit a two-year spending plan, instead of the current annual one, and to substitute a joint budget committee for the present House and Senate units, which often disagree. Most important, it would convert the budget outline Congress is supposed to produce in April to a joint resolution requiring the President's signature. That would foster serious early bargaining between the White House and Capitol Hill...