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...jobs program. Congressman Floyd Spence, who chairs the National Security Committee and hails from a South Carolina district bristling with military facilities, proposed in February that Congress boost Pentagon spending $125 billion more than Clinton had proposed for the next five years. But Spence ran into spending slasher John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee. A frustrated Spence even accused Kasich of "siding with people who want to destroy our nation's defense." Kasich prevailed, but knows his own limits. He will fight proposed spending for the B-2 but will leave it to others to stop the Seawolf...
...Kasich: One of the most important things that happened is when the balanced-budget amendment went down. That night, somebody came in and told me, "Well, Newt said we're going to zero anyway." And that's when I was convinced that we would actually...
...Kasich: I go home every weekend. I live at home like everybody else does. I hear it in the gym. I hear it at the grocery store. They're saying they're ready to fix this because they know that their kids' future is at stake. I think frankly this is our last chance. Things are aligned. [People] want it fair and across the board. The thing I love about our plan is that everybody is feeling the ouch. Nobody got out of the room...
TIME: What do you see as the greatest danger for your plan? Kasich: Getting tripped up on the details. Forgetting the big picture...
...JOHN KASICH House budget chairman backs up G.O.P. rhetoric with no-nonsense plan...