Word: gramm
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Available at the Hyatt press center--a list of over "words you won't find in the Democratic Platform Among them are: God, grazing, and Gramm- Rudman. Also missing: quota, Cuba and church...
...legislation had not even come to a vote when Republican Senator Phil Gramm of Texas implored his colleagues to repeal it "in a future year." A future nonelection year, Gramm might have added. The Senate, a third of whose members must face the voters this year, was about to pass a broadly popular bill requiring plant owners to notify workers 60 days in advance of closings or wholesale layoffs. Despite Ronald Reagan's threatened veto, 19 Republicans joined 53 Democrats to forge a 72-to-23 victory. With that lopsided vote, the bill's supporters can easily override a presidential...
Well, Mr. Gramm I have to disagree. Bush is from several states: Massachusetts (where he was actually born), Connecticut, Maine and Texas. He's registered as a Texan. His address is a room at the Houstonian Hotel. Recently, Texan Democrats had bologna sandwiches in his hotel room, because its bologna that he is from Texas...
ARMS CONTROL: Favors research and deployment of SDI. CENTRAL AMERICA: Favors sending military and economic aid to the contras, and supports the Arias peace plan. DEFICIT: Will reduce waste in the defense department and eliminate the Department of Education. Favors Gramm-Rudman balanced budget amendment. EDUCATION: Would implement the use of education vouchers, and calls for increases in programs to attack illiteracy. TAXES: Will not raise income taxes, but will raise taxes on alcohol and tobacco. TRADE: Favors free trade, opposes Gephardt amendment, but concedes that some action must be taken against unfair trade practices...
...goal was to wipe out the deficit by 1992 -- a year ahead of the target in the latest version of the Gramm-Rudman law. The case for balancing the budget sooner rather than later is simple: the longer it takes, the more difficult it becomes, and the more costly the delay. During his terms, Reagan has amassed a higher deficit total ($1.25 trillion) than all previous Presidents combined. In the process, he and Congress have more than doubled the national debt, to $2.36 trillion. Meanwhile, interest on the debt has snowballed, threatening to bury the financial fortunes of generations...