Word: domenici
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...major components include a provision which will remodel Medicare and another which will create a $24 billion program of health care for uninsured children. "It is in short a great victory for the American people who are entitled to expect that their adult leaders work together," said Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. With the budget bill out of the way, Congress will now focus on passing the tax cutting package, which offers a $500-per-child tax credit, a reduction in the capital gains tax and roughly $35 billion in benefits for students. The House will likely...
...some very heated arguments," says Senate Budget chairman Pete Domenici of the months of intense negotiations in his Capitol hideaway. "But this was big adult men knowing we had something to do." Before it was over, the can-do spirit in the negotiating room had grown so heady that Kasich, 44, reached over to hug Gene Sperling, Clinton's 38-year-old national economic adviser. "C'mon, Gene!" cried the gung-ho Kasich. "Let's do it for our generation...
...budget talks between the White House and Congress falter this week, don't be quick to blame Republican intransigence. An internal G.O.P. strategy memo prepared for House and Senate budget committee chairmen John Kasich and Pete Domenici shows Republicans were so dispirited by their showdown with Clinton last time around that they are ready to put almost everything on the table this year. Drafted in late March and obtained by TIME last week, the memo states that the G.O.P.'s "minimum requirements" for a budget deal with the President are minimal indeed: modest spending reductions, small tax cuts and "saving...
...that it glosses over her prior actions, or wrongly implicates others or smacks of self-congratulation. It's that it is a haphazard, self-limiting approach to public policy--and there's a lot of that going around these days. Hard-nosed budget hawk Senator Pete Domenici, whose daughter has suffered from mental illness, expensively amended the Kennedy-Kassebaum health-care bill to cover such afflictions. Conservative Republican Senator Al D'Amato, whose top political strategist is homosexual, supports gays in the military. Antiregulation Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, whose daughter was tragically killed in an auto accident...
...strikes me as not having a lot of guile, and in a Democrat that's refreshing." Across Capitol Hill the reviews by other Republicans are just as glowing. "It's obvious he tries very hard to understand our side," says Pete Domenici, the Senate Budget Committee chairman...