Word: kasich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John R. Kasich (R-Ohio), chair of the committee, says nearly all federal programs, including student financial aid, will likely face cuts in funding...
...particular, Kasich has proposed eliminating campus-based financial aid programs such as Work-Study and Perkins Loans, as well as ending the in-school interest subsidy on Stafford Loans...
Passing around a list of every function in the budget, Kasich said, "All of these groups will be looked at under the prism of can it be eliminated, can it be privatized, can it be cut?" Hearing the magnitude of Kasich's plan for the first time, Gingrich was concerned. "The other committees are all going to jump on you," he warned Kasich. Soon-to-be majority leader Dick Armey of Texas added a stern caution of his own: "If you get out too far ahead of us, you're going to be out there alone...
They agreed that Kasich would submit another list the following Monday -- one, Gingrich instructed, that would begin with the 70% of the budget that is hardest to cut. Kasich interrupted, "I can give it to you now -- Medicare and Medicaid...
...session with Kasich had been arranged hastily, and was the only meeting that day in which Gingrich actually discussed the substance of legislation. - The rest of his day, Gingrich wrestled with logistics. There were meetings to parcel out office space, much of which the new Speaker had never been allowed to see until after the election. There were meetings to decide whom to hire, as well as which of Congress's more than 10,000 jobs to abolish. Among the first to go in the campaign to show that Gingrich's team is serious about rooting out waste: the scores...