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Caught in the middle was Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who hoped to be the architect of a face-saving compromise. After House Democrats had passed a budget plan that would raise defense spending approximately 4%, the moderate New Mexico Senator believed that the White House would eventually try to reach a bipartisan accommodation at about 7% real growth. But Domenici's hopes were shattered last Tuesday when G.O.P. members of the Budget Committee were summoned to the White House to hear the President's final offer: a mere $10 billion trim...
...bomber, we will be accepting permanent nuclear inferiority," he said. Weinberger's campaign to win congressional approval for his spending plans will be long and difficult. At a meeting earlier in the week, Republican leaders of the Senate Budget Committee urged Weinberger to accept significant cuts. Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico has indicated that the proposed increase in spending of 10% after inflation may have to be sliced in half. But the Administration has remained firm, and no formula for a compromise has emerged in the Senate. In the face of this impasse, Domenici postponed further deliberations...
...Congress that "we have reached the bone and that any further cuts would do severe damage to our national security." Republican leaders were forced to come up with their own suggestions. Warner proposed reducing the size of the armed forces by up to 7%. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico argued that military spending could be cut by 5%, bringing it down to the growth rate put forward by Reagan two years ago. Slade Gorton of Washington suggested freezing defense spending at the fiscal 1983 level, $209 billion...
...party. A cadre of conservatives led by Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa and Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia argued hat the so-called freeze should be applied more evenly across the board to defense is well as domestic spending. In addition, lamented Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico, "even with a freeze, you've still got a big deficit problem out there." Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole insisted that food stamps and health programs could be cut no further and rejected Reagan's proposal to impose a stand-by tax of about $50 billion...
News of Baker's possible retirement sent a quiver through ambitious Republicans. Among those mentioned to succeed Baker as G.O.P. Senate leader in 1985: Dole, Lugar, Pete Domenici (New Mexico) and Senate Whip Ted Stevens (Alaska). In Tennessee the most likely contenders for Baker's Senate seat are Congressman Albert Gore Jr. and Governor Alexander...