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...felt this was an incredibly generous compromise, but it just didn't get looked at," Dempsey said. "The council was predisposed to vote this way because of lobbying...
...wealthy. Cabinet secretaries, economic officials and most of all White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta banged away relentlessly; they criticized other proposals, such as a reduction in funding for Head Start, almost parenthetically. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, recalling the hammering Republicans took earlier for proposing less generous funding of school lunches, described the Medicare issue as "school lunch times...
...same time, Chirac intends to revamp the educational system and maintain the country's generous network of social and health benefits. When asked how he can simultaneously lower taxes, subsidize employment and boost salaries while cutting a $92 billion public deficit, Chirac likes to respond with an aphorism: "Politics is not just the art of the possible, it is sometimes the art of making possible what is necessary." Specifically, he has called for a major audit of state spending to identify and eliminate waste. He also intends to use proceeds from privatization to draw down the national debt...
...extend their authority into areas of life as diverse as racial discrimination in restaurants and limits on farm products. Most of the civil rights legislation of the 1960s depends on the Commerce Clause. And in recent years Congress has eagerly seized upon the court's generous reading of the clause as a license to extend its jurisdiction even further, adding to the list of federal offenses crimes such as carjacking and drive-by shootings...
Although the Faculty has objected strongly tothe reductions, many impartial observers havedescribed Harvard's package as extremely generous...