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...rarefied world of U.S. Senators, Pete Domenici, a third-term New Mexico Republican, is about as homespun as they come. While many of his smooth, well-tailored colleagues are chauffeured to the Capitol, the rumpled Domenici, 53, can sometimes be spotted commuting on Washington's metro, a loose tie draped from his neck, his furrowed brow giving him a look of perpetual worry befitting a hardworking father of eight...
Nevertheless, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici has promised to give an amnesty consideration in fiscal-1987 budget discussions. The committee has already rejected one unpalatable deficit cure. Last week it voted 16 to 6 against President Reagan's proposed budget. Six of the nays, just enough to have reversed the outcome, came from the panel's Republican majority...
...build leverage. As director of the 1984 G.O.P. Convention, Lobbyist William Timmons, a quietly genial man who represents such blue- chippers as Boeing, Chrysler, ABC and Anheuser-Busch, controlled access to the podium. G.O.P. Senators lobbied him for prime-time appearances. A Wall Street Journal reporter described Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, who was running for re-election in the fall of 1984, thanking Timmons a bit too effusively for allotting time for him to address the convention. "You told me you'd give me a shot," gushed Domenici. "So I appreciate it, brother...
Many legislators feel that new taxes are the only hope for true deficit reduction. Says New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, head of the Senate Budget Committee: "Taxes can be the glue that puts that package together." The leading candidate is an oil import fee, which if combined with taxes on energy consumption could raise as much as $30 billion a year. There would be minimum pain to consumers, since the new taxes would only offset the recent plunge in oil prices...
...Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), chairman of theSenate Budget Committee, proposed today thatReagan call a budget summit "to see if we can puta package together...