Word: kasich
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Last year virtually every proposal to cut corporate welfare met a quiet death at the hands of the committees that pass on spending and tax legislation. What House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and his forces considered unjustifiable giveaways other Congressmen defended as vital to their districts. In the end, the 25 or so programs considered most egregious by critics from all sides--say, building logging roads for timber companies at government expense--saw their budgets nicked some $2.6 billion, or only 16%, says Stephen Moore, fiscal-policy director of the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute. And for all its denunciation...
...Republicans' turn again. Working at a long table in the smoking section, Gingrich and House Budget chairman John Kasich agreed on an offer that reduced Medicare growth $168 billion, adopted the conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats' proposed savings of $85 billion on Medicaid, split the difference with Clinton on tax cuts at $177 billion and embraced the Senate's version of welfare reform, which 40 Democrats had voted for and Clinton had blessed, at least initially. They still held fast to the notion of transforming entitlements like Medicaid into block grants to the states. Gingrich figured that the proposal, when made...
...Panetta. Gephardt and Gore, who both have their eye on the presidential race in 2000, had come to be known among the Republicans as "the chaperons," as in "We could have gone further, but the chaperons were watching." This time the Republicans wanted to bring along the Budget chairmen, Kasich and Pete Domenici; for one thing, it would even up the players on each side, and more important, they were the best guys with numbers. But to the Republicans' fury, Gore vetoed the idea, and to their amazement, Clinton went along. That meant that during the key session, Gingrich, Armey...
...time, House leaders were talking vaguely about a "glide path" toward a balanced budget in seven years. To Budget chairman John Kasich, that meant passing the normal five-year budget in a form that would simply make credible the idea of wiping out the deficit two years later. When Gingrich suddenly announced in late January that the Republicans would offer a seven-year plan to bring the deficit down to zero, Kasich was stunned. He was, after all, the guy who had to make the numbers...
...Speaker at a meeting of the high command: "Where is it in stone that we have to balance the budget in seven years?" The Speaker replied, "Let's put it to a vote. Who wants to put it in stone?" Everyone in the room raised his hand--except Kasich. Senate Republicans, though queasy at the idea, eventually accepted the goal as well, and the script for the rest of 1995 was written...