Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Raisin Bran doesn't have too much added sugar. Rather, it is sweeter because of sugar that occurs naturally in dried fruit. Dried fruit, they add, is very nutritious. Kellogg even joined forces with Sun-Maid, the California raisin producer, to press for an end to the sugar limit. The debate got so intense that at one meeting in 1991 Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan and Kellogg chairman Arnold Langbo started shouting and pounding the table. (Kellogg denies the meeting got that heated...
...budget deficit was "more important" than cutting taxes--a larger number than recorded in 1992. That sentiment helped explain why 102 House Republicans--including 10 of 20 committee chairmen and 35 of 73 freshmen-asked the leadership to revise the contract's proposed $500 per child tax credit and limit it to taxpayers making less than $95,000 a year. Otherwise, they argued, the credit would go to anyone making up to $200,000--hardly just the middle class. Perhaps worse, it would also amount to a backdoor raise for members of Congress, who make $133,600 a year. That...
...happens, House Republicans will face a likely defeat this week when they take up term limits, a provision of the contract that seemed far more sensible to many last fall (when their party was out of power) than it does now. The most popular version, sponsored by Representative Bill McCollum of Florida, would limit House and Senate members to 12 years in office once the measure is ratified by the states. But even its proponents admit that they have only about 185 solid Republican votes and 35 Democratic votes for the measure--70 short of the 290 needed to amend...
Late last week, Gingrich postponed the term-limit votes until midweek, in part to give backers time to gather votes. But his biggest test will come in early April, when his overall package of spending and tax cuts is on the table. Already, a small group of moderate Republicans has met several times with conservative Democrats to discuss how to link any future tax cuts to deficit reduction. Even if G.O.P. moderates succeed in reducing the scope of the $500-per-child tax credit, an enormous tax break for the wealthy would still loom. Democrats charge that more than...
...book comes at a time when Republicans are making a fetish of balanced budgets, tilting at the last remnants of the New Deal and threatening to pass laws that limit the ability of ordinary citizens to sue companies for negligence. The End of Reform is a reminder that there was a time when popular reform was not about protecting corporations from consumers but shielding consumers from corporations...