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...Because now the leadership is counting on his vote. After Lott declared last week that "we will have the votes," his head count was the subject of some debate as this week began. Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) was "rather confident," while his counterpart, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) replied that "as of a few hours ago, they did not have the votes to pass this budget resolution." Head Democrat Tom Daschle said there was a "real possibility that we could bring down the size of this ill-advised...
G.O.P. legislators began moving that way last week. As the stock market continued to swoon amid more negative economic news, Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, proposed handing taxpayers a $60 billion rebate in 2001. It's not clear what form that might take: the IRS could simply send out rebate checks, or, even quicker, the government might lower the amounts automatically withheld from workers' pay. Rebates would probably be treated as taxable income, which would reduce both their economic clout and public relations appeal. Evenly divided among the country's 200 million adult taxpayers, they could...
...Tuesday, McCain and Feingold cut their first deal, with Pete Domenici, over the so-called "millionaire's exemption" - allowing the opponent of a self-financed candidate to raise extra money to keep up. Thus blessed, the amendment passed 70-30, and McCain-Feingold acquired its first alteration but probably not its last...
...Senate Democrats also say Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has been less than impressive in pitching Bush's tax cut plan. Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici has warned the White House that the plan is already in trouble. By holding out the $1.6 trillion figure as all or nothing, Democrats say Bush is looking inflexible and unrealistic...
...Pentagon backed down, but that wasn't good enough. In May, Stevens and Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico tacked a rider to a budget bill instructing the Pentagon's civilians to keep their hands off the corps. The lawmakers' defense of the status quo is no surprise. The corps spends millions of dollars every year in their states and immortalizes its congressional friends with locks and dams named for them. It is no coincidence that the corps's headquarters is not located in some corner of the Pentagon but sits at the foot of Capitol Hill. The rider...