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...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...
...Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Majority Leader Dick Armey will hold a budget summit at the White House Friday. Talks got back on track after White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta met Thursday with Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. John Kasich, the chairmen of the Senate and House Banking Committees. House Republicans have said that they will not pass a continuing resolution to end the partial federal shutdown until the budget deal is completed...
...GOPAC disclosures put Gingrich under a cloud just as his party enters the final weeks of budget negotiations with the White House. To allay the image problem, Gingrich transferred responsibility for day-to-day budget bargaining to majority leader Dick Armey and Budget Committee chairman John Kasich. To some extent, Gingrich will try to rely on others, including such unlikely spokesmen as freshman J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, to make the sales pitches on talk shows and press conferences. Gingrich has even vowed to get more sleep. The self-benching has some Gingrich aides worried about the "message vacuum" that will...
...John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee and a chief architect of G.O.P. spending cuts, met in early September with a group of first-term House Republicans and presented them with a fistful of newspaper clips about breaks that the new Congress had given to business. "We have to do something," he entreated them. "This is killing us." With prodding from Kasich, Bill Archer, the business-friendly chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is offering a response that has stunned colleagues from both parties. For months he had fended off efforts to eliminate corporate tax breaks...
...This is why we came to Congress," said an ebullient House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-Ohio), as his party rammedits historic plan to balance the federal budget by 2002through the House (239-194) and Senate (54-46) in votes that fell along party lines. The plan includes $245 billion in tax cuts and $894 billion in spending cuts that hit Medicare, Medicaid and social services heavily. Action now moves to the appropriations committees where,TIME's Karen Tumultyreports, "the real work is already being done." The triumphant GOP package, she adds, falls short of promises by Kasich...