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...have more children. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who added the family cap to his sweeping welfare reform bill last Friday, lobbied hard for the measure, saying "If we don't deal with out-of-wedlock births, then we're really not dealing with welfare reform." Republican Pete Domenici, who led the opposition, said that the payments in question were too small to discourage poor women from having more out-of-wedlock children. He added that the limitation might actually encourage poor women to have abortions...
...with her in the Senate. John McCain, an Arizona Senator of impeccable conservative credentials who has endorsed Gramm for President, credits Dole's chief of staff with rescuing the Arizona Senator's hard-line proposal for a line-item veto from such formidable adversaries as Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici. "One way of getting your point across to Bob Dole is getting your point across to Sheila, but that doesn't mean that she directs him. It means that he can rely on her," McCain says...
...compromise plan that would balance the budget within seven years, cut taxes by $245 billion and slow Medicare and Medicaid spending. "We have a deal," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told reporters, as he came out of a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Senate Budget Chairman Pete Domenici andHouse Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich."You're going to love it," Gingrich said. "You get more take home pay." President Clinton, who favorsa 10-year balanced budget with fewer cuts in social services,has his veto pen ready...
...audition as a deficit-fighter. Top Republicans now say they believe his alternative 10-year timetable relied onoverly-optimistic economic scenarios and failed to cut Medicare and social services enough."I don't believe it comes close to balancing in 10 years," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). The White House, which plans to market Clinton's ideas as the more humane route to fiscal responsibility, immediately fired back. "They can't pass a budget over a veto," White House budget chief Alice Rivlin told reporters. Clinton has already alienated congressional Democrats by compromising so much...
...House plan leaves many programs andlaboratories, such as the Los Alamos nuclearresearch laboratory and Brookhaven NationalLaboratories, apparently unfunded. Some say thereis little coincidence that Los Alamos would befunded by the Senate plan drawn up by Domenici,whose home state is New Mexico...