Word: hike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's what leaders are for, to take the heat," drawled House Speaker Jim Wright, sporting his trademark country-boy grin. It has seldom been hotter than it has been since plans for a 51% pay hike for top Government officials, including members of Congress, touched off a political fire storm...
...Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire juxtaposed a bandit's mask with a portrait of Wright, solemnly intoning that "a pay raise without a vote is stealing." Later Humphrey came as close to blows as Senators ever do with fellow Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, who favors the pay hike, during a heated exchange at a committee hearing on the subject. Some of Wright's House colleagues, the vast majority of whom want the raise, have started comparing him, unfavorably, with Sam Rayburn, another Texan who once occupied the Speaker's chair...
Just hours before the Senate righteously denounced and rejected the pay raise (knowing full well that the House would ride to the rescue), a wilted Wright reversed field, declaring that the House would vote after all -- to reduce the pay hike, once it goes into effect, to 30%. That would still leave the lawmakers with a hefty increase, from $89,500 to $116,350, rather than to $135,000. (Since Congress received its last raise, a 16% increase in 1987, inflation has remained at an annual rate of just 4.4%.) Or as Wright and members seeking re-election next year...
...recent weeks legislative leaders have criticized the administration's proposed $13.4 billion fiscal 1990 budget--especially the governor's controversial $604 million tax hike proposal--as excessive at a time when the state faces a $636 million deficit...
Because of the state legislature's commitment to preserving essential social programs, it will eventually approve Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' proposed tax hike, Massachusetts Secretary of Human Services Philip Johnston predicted yesterday at the Kennedy School...