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...EMERGENCY! Key supporter: HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT How it works: Call expenditures like the $4.5 billion allocated for the 2000 Census "emergencies," so they don't count under the 1997 spending caps. Small hitch: If the Census--held each decade for 210 years--is an emergency, what's Hurricane Floyd...
Last week House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Lott acknowledged that the tax cut was dead for 1999. Unlike some G.O.P. moderates, Lott claimed he wasn't interested in a compromise--a little more spending for Clinton, a smaller tax cut for the G.O.P. Better to have the issue to take to voters next year. That suits most Democrats fine: Al Gore never misses a chance to denounce the G.O.P.'s "risky tax-cut scheme" and to promise that education and health care would have priority over tax cuts if the Democrats had their way. The only Democrat...
...business-funded Committee for Economic Development, a policy group that includes leaders from such companies as Mobil, Honeywell and Sara Lee, have signed on to a proposal to ban soft money and pass other reforms--and have sent a pointed letter to that effect to House Speaker Dennis Hastert...
...Rivlin; Secretary of Commerce William Daley will go salmon fishing in Alaska with Senate Appropriations chairman Ted Stevens; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught a law class held at Crete's Sirens Beach Resort Hotel; Senator John McCain will settle in on a houseboat in Lake Powell, Ariz.; Speaker Dennis Hastert will attend the reopening of the Reichstag; Al Gore went canoeing on the Connecticut River...
...third of all taxes, would have gotten 33 percent of the tax breaks. Now they?re getting 21 percent. Roth had the top 20 percent of incomes, who pay two-thirds of the taxes, slated for 66 percent; now they?re getting 79 percent of the breaks. Yes, Denny Hastert, the rich pay more taxes than the rest of us. That?s because they?ve got more money...