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...budget time. Tax cut time. Bush time. Trent Lott wants to get his president a budget deal by Friday, and now he figures his colleagues are going to pay him back for their frivolity. McConnell's Darth Vader helmet is off; he's back to being chairman of the Rules Committee, the setter of the Senate pace. And for McCain - formerly Luke Skywalker - it's probably time to go back to being the Republican who stood next to George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention and forgot he didn't like...
...Because now the leadership is counting on his vote. After Lott declared last week that "we will have the votes," his head count was the subject of some debate as this week began. Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) was "rather confident," while his counterpart, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) replied that "as of a few hours ago, they did not have the votes to pass this budget resolution." Head Democrat Tom Daschle said there was a "real possibility that we could bring down the size of this ill-advised...
...when Tom Daschle couldn't stretch out campaign finance reform long enough to push the full budget debate until May, Bush - and the Republican leadership - won. Lott has promised that some form of the Bush budget will get though the Senate if they have to stay up all night voting. McConnell will set the pace. And the urgency that the Democrats almost turned against Bush and his disconnected rhetoric is now back on the President's side. After all, what better excuse is there for compromising than the fact that U.S. consumers need their stimulus ASAP...
...from assured. The House approved a similar measure in the last Congress, when it was certain the Senate would kill it. Would it do the same if it means sending a bill to Bush's desk? And if the two houses have to reconcile their versions, who would Lott appoint to the conference committee? If he sent McCain and his nemesis McConnell, the fight would just continue in a different theater...
...many as 3 million families that currently pay no income tax, earning from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. In a rare move, Democratic Senator Kent Conrad asked Congress to pass some version of these proposals by the first week of April. Senate majority leader Trent Lott offered a more leisurely schedule, calling for their consideration as part of a multi-year tax-cut package, perhaps as soon as Memorial...