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...revenue caused by abandoning the broad energy tax, the committee has looked to changes in Medicare that would make the elderly pay more of their own way. That has displeased the senior-citizens lobby. "They took the most conservative committee in the Senate," said its exasperated chairman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, "and they gave it the job of protecting social programs...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, blue polka-dot bow tie flagging his considerable presence, walked into the Oval Office last week, a 6-ft. 4-in. "loose cannon," as the Clinton crew viewed him. Moynihan coolly surveyed the office paintings, indicating his reservations, checked to be sure the elegant desk used by John Kennedy (a Moynihan idol) was still there, settled on a couch and told the President of the United States, 20 years his junior, that the BTU energy tax was dead, moribund, finished...
That was yet another in a series of clipped pronouncements the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has made in public and private that have blown large holes in the listing hulk of fellow Democrat Bill Clinton's economic package. Moynihan is not a conventional party leader. The Hill's loyal opposition has whispered that he is "chairman by fluke." Even Democrats were stunned when former committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen accepted the job as Secretary of the Treasury, which moved Moynihan to the mountaintop, an unproven leader. In fact, Moynihan is the Senate's most eccentric, brilliant and fearless purveyor...
...others there -- Senate majority leader George Mitchell, Budget Director Leon Panetta and Bentsen -- said little. "Mr. President," intoned Moynihan in that professorial voice, "what if you have to go to Tokyo after a bill has been defeated?" Clinton paused a second or two. "I couldn't go," he replied...
...switch and support the budget -- which then passed by three votes more than the minimum needed. From Moscow and Paris last week, where he had gone to confer with Boris Yeltsin and other top foreign leaders, Bentsen spent about 2 1/2 hours every day phoning White House officials, Moynihan and others to begin working out the details of a deal that might be acceptable to the Administration and the 11 Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee (the nine Republicans are all sure to vote...