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...Gingrich's recent planning sessions came on a morning when the Washington Post had announced what would have seemed preposterous before the election: the Clinton White House was actually thinking about killing an entire Cabinet agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Incoming Budget Committee chairman John Kasich, 42, a tousle-haired Dennis- the-Menace look-alike who has been known to brandish a bullwhip on the House floor, exulted, "This is our stuff...
Dressed in a maroon turtleneck and khakis, Kasich had dropped by Gingrich's office to present his latest proposals for one of the biggest challenges in selling the "Contract with America": making the numbers add up. Most of the . other new G.O.P. leaders had gathered around the coffee table where he sat, anxious to see how Kasich was faring with a job that defies political physics: figuring out how to spend more than $100 billion over the next five years on an income-tax cut, as well as numerous tax breaks for wealthy investors and business, while beefing up spending...
...Kasich, though, seemed undaunted. Let Clinton talk about killing one department, he said. He had plans to zero out four and eviscerate a fifth. (He declined to allow those departments to be named.) Kasich also figured he could whack more than one-fifth of the foreign-aid budget during the next five years without touching Israel's share, and cut another $26 billion from food stamps in the same period...
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...
...billion from the federal budget over five years -- leaving $16 billion for deficit reduction. Still, about $52 billion of the cuts are unspecified. Aides say most won't take effect until the end of the decade. The incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee, Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio) said Clinton's plan doesn't go far enough. The Administration "failed to eliminate any departments or agencies," Kasich said. "This administration must do more, and be far more specific." Clinton promised to oppose any cuts that "undermine our economic recovery," hurt the poor, hamper education or curtail environmental protection...