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...process of getting him ready started in earnest at a May 8 meeting that began at 8 p.m. in Dole's Senate office and continued for three hours over barbecued food sent in from a nearby restaurant. Six conservative economists and six Republican Senators, headed by Pete Domenici of New Mexico, had been invited to discuss two questions posed by Dole: how to speed up economic growth and how to raise stagnant wages. They agreed that deep tax cuts needed to be part of a multipronged program that would also stress deregulation, school choice, worker training and enough spending cuts...
Taylor was constantly checking with Domenici to make sure that he could find enough spending reductions to offset $500 billion to $600 billion in tax cuts and still balance the budget by 2002. At a meeting on July 13, Domenici said he could do it. He also warned that those cuts would be extremely difficult to make politically, but that did not seem to set off any alarm bells...
Dole has paid a heavy price for that coyness. It left him and his aides woefully unprepared for persistent questioning as to what spending he would cut to offset his tax cuts and balance the budget. Domenici's folks had suggested some specific spending cuts and the closing of some corporate-tax loopholes. Dole chose not to talk about those ideas, because he wanted to keep the spotlight on tax cuts rather than spending cuts and feared that loophole closing could be represented as a tax increase. Thus he was reduced to asking the public to trust him to find...
...PETE DOMENICI (R) SENIOR SENATOR...
...remain convinced that a balanced budget will also provide enormous benefits for students, as it will result in lower interest rates for future student loans," said Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...