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...would not, for example, be a pronounced change in the conduct of most major Senate committees if the Democrats won the chairmanships by gaining control. In many cases, the current ranking Democrat on a committee is ideologically simpatico with the present Republican chairman. On the Budget Committee, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles has generally agreed with New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici. Both have criticized the President's budget proposals over the years. A Democratic majority would give the President a little bit more of a fight on domestic spending cuts and probably increase the chance of a tax hike to battle...
...could be talking about that," replied Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.), ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee...
...there was sweet satisfaction for the long-suffering Domenici last week when the Senate voted 70 to 25 to pass a budget resolution he was instrumental in hammering out. While the plan was less austere than the one Domenici produced with the Budget Committee's ranking Democrat, Lawton Chiles of Florida, it is far more balanced than the President's proposal. The Senate plan calls for increasing military spending to $301 billion--$19 billion less than Reagan requested--while raising revenues (through new taxes or fees) of $13.2 billion, more than twice what the President wants...
Looking back over the long accumulation of deficits, which stretches back to the last balanced budget in 1969, Florida's Democratic Senator Lawton Chiles acknowledges that "we always seem to come up with a new slogan to patch over gaps in our willpower." And looking ahead to the dangers that Gramm-Rudman may bring, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz says, "It is perhaps a little mindless, but it may be the only way out of the morass." All of which is another way of asking, If Gramm-Rudman is too arbitrary, what is going to get the Government...
...they do. "Every house needs a door, and every country needs a border," says Colorado's Democratic Governor Richard Lamm. If the U.S. fails to stop illegal immigration, he warns, "we shall leave a legacy of strife, violence and job-lessness for our children." Florida's Senator Lawton Chiles is equally alarmist. "If we do not regain control of our borders . . . I think that within ten years, we will not recognize the United States as the United States we see today...