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...Appropriations Committee are relatively modest. But if lawmakers can't say no to little programs, it bodes ill for their ability later on to cut the bigger ones, like entitlements. No one is more worried by the direction in which things are headed than Budget Committee chairman John Kasich, who said that while the appropriators are meeting their spending targets for this year, their reluctance to uproot entire programs now will make it more difficult to reach the more ambitious goals that have been outlined for the later years of the seven-year drive to balance the budget...
Among many programs Kasich recommended killing was the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a $34 million-a-year agency venture that promotes exports to countries where U.S. businesses have been reluctant to operate. The Republican House formally endorsed its demise in foreign-aid legislation as well. How did the appropriators respond? By more than doubling opic's budget. The Budget Committee also recommended doing away with the Energy Department entirely. But if the energy subcommittee gets its way, the department will be cut by a mere 6% next year, or $940 million...
...budget within seven years, cut taxes by $245 billion and slow Medicare and Medicaid spending. "We have a deal," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told reporters, as he came out of a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Senate Budget Chairman Pete Domenici andHouse Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich."You're going to love it," Gingrich said. "You get more take home pay." President Clinton, who favorsa 10-year balanced budget with fewer cuts in social services,has his veto pen ready...
...lawyer of last resort for poor people with family, housing, consumer or entitlement problems. But it has long been a target of conservatives. Senator Phil Gramm has called for LSC's possible abolition, although he may be backing down on that demand. House Budget chairman John Kasich has proposed deep cuts in LSC funding and aims to phase it out altogether. Traditionally, the right has taken issue with LSC's history of filing class actions against the government on behalf of the poor over welfare benefits, food stamps, and the like. But Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed told...
...John R. Kasich (R-Ohio), chair of theHouse Budget Committee, has also released hisversion of the fiscal year 1996 budget draft,recently passed by the House...