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...Trent Lott and Denny Hastert's placard, meanwhile, said "Tax Relief for Everyone," and the pair leaned heavily on Bush's "the average working family gets $1,600" pitch. The plan, of course, has something for every conservative Republican - across-the-board cuts for the tax-code ideologues, marriage-penalty reductions and per-child and charitable expansions for the social conservatives - and Hastert and Lott seem quite content to pass the thing...
JOHN MCCAIN Trent Lott okays campaign-finance debate in Senate. Incessant needling pays...
...main reason is also why Bush is spending so much time meeting with fellow GOPers these days: The President is flooded with tax-cut requests from his side of the aisle, from Trent Lott and his capital-gains reduction to social conservatives who want a tax break for all married couples. Bush may have painted a pretty clear picture of his cut during the campaign, but now that he's in office, the old saw "the President proposes, the Congress disposes" is kicking in with a vengeance...
...After reaching a general agreement that Lott called "a win-win for all concerned," the majority leader gets a dose of peace, and McCain gets a number. The McCain-Feingold soft-money ban will be debated on the Senate floor in mid-to-late March, after education and quite possibly, if that goes well, the budget. And Bush, said Lott, gets "the opportunity that I thought he deserved... to roll out his agenda." Which McCain-Feingold is most definitely...
...steam gathering behind a big tax cut, sometimes a mandate is just an invitation for more grandstanding. Most Republicans, Bush first among them, have only the slightest flicker of interest in reform, thanks to some legitimate free-speech problems with a soft-money ban and the iron hands of Lott and chief Senate fund-raiser Mitch McConnell. (He who controls the reelection money controls many a politician, and yes, that was McConnell emceeing Bush's inaugural.) Most Democrats, chief Democratic fund-raiser Bob Torricelli first among them, find that their yen for reform tends to wane as soon...