Word: domenici
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...occasional joke. On Thursday, when New York Senator Charles Schumer pressed him to add an extra $20 billion in emergency aid for the state, Bush did not hesitate. "You got it," he said, though it meant squelching the objections of conservative G.O.P. Senators Don Nickles, Phil Gramm and Pete Domenici...
...gold rep tie has a movement so seduced the G.O.P. Conservative stalwarts Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Phil Gramm of Texas have decided to yield their Senate seats after 2002, and strategists fear a wave of retirement notices in the next few months. Possible departures include Senator Pete Domenici, a five-termer from New Mexico, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, the other Texas Senator and a new adoptive mom. Aides to Alaska's Frank Murkowski have let it be known their boss is weighing a run for Governor, meaning he could leave the Senate next year. And Die Hard...
...year for a national missile defense. And it may be a good idea to dip into the fund to help stimulate the economy. But so far, the only politician to stick his head above the parapet and say times have changed and so should our minds is Sen. Pete Domenici, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. "What's wrong with using it for education," Domenici said last week. "I have now talked with 15 economists. None of them believe that is good economic policy for America to say we cannot touch those [funds] in a time of declining...
...Domenici's trial balloon was met with deafening silence by his Republican colleagues. Pry open the Social Security lock box? Not a chance, says the GOP. Democrats can't wait to blast Republicans for dipping into that trust fund. So just the opposite is happening. "People are beginning to figure out where their foxholes and gun emplacements are to be located and where they're going to start the war," a Senate Republican leadership aide tells me. "The first shots have been fired over Social Security and the economy. On the economy, Republicans have the high ground because we believe...
...Domenici adamantly insists he's not bowing out. He's raised $1.9 million for the next campaign and just had George W. Bush in his state for a fundraiser. But then again, Gramm, who has $4.4 million in his campaign war chest, adamantly insisted last month that he'd run for reelection...