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Politicians too--surprise!--have discovered the elixir of schoolroom values. Last week Senator Pete Domenici, New Mexico Republican, proposed legislation to provide an additional $125 million over five years for character-education programs. At his conference last week on school violence, President Clinton--without apparent irony--endorsed character education. And Dan Quayle has expressed his own ideas on how to proceed: "I suggest [students] start with the Ten Commandments." (It sure beats spelling bees...
...town-hall meeting in Michigan, had a change of heart, saying last week that he was happy that tax relief was being debated at all. A plan more likely to emerge from Lott's domain is being drawn up by Senate budget boss Pete Domenici, a cautious deficit hawk who wants to postpone tax cuts until surpluses grow much larger. New Jersey Democrat Robert Torricelli is proposing yet another idea: raise the amount of income subject to the 15% minimum rate and exempt $500 of interest and dividend income and $5,000 in capital-gains taxes...
...lucky enough to get antique seats were placed between the rows, so that tall Senators like Oregon's Gordon Smith sat with his knees pressed up against the chair in front of him. "It was like riding with two people in a wheelbarrow," said New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici...
...would doom it--he has been leading town-hall meetings around the country. In January he proposed devoting the entire budget surplus to the problem (something he may regret now that the cigarette money is gone), an approach that last week won the support of Republican Senators Pete Domenici and Phil Gramm. (Their surprising move pulled the rug out from under House Republicans, who want to use some of the surplus for a huge election-year tax cut--$702 billion over 10 years.) So far so good. But saving Social Security means making hard choices--moving part of the trust...
Although he continues to postpone offering any substantive plan to save Social Security, the President has already committed prospective tobacco money for new government spending. As Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) has insisted, any windfall from anti-smoking litigation ought to be used to shore up Medicare. Preventing the dissolution of both Social Security and Medicare-care constitutes a national priority. Expansion of the federal government, even in good economic times, remains an ill-conceived prerogative...