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...been expected. For example, the stress on tax increases over spending reductions in the Administration's deficit-cutting program reflects Clinton's preferences far more than Bentsen's. So far, too, the compromises pushing that program through Congress have been concocted by Capitol Hill powers -- currently Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who succeeded Bentsen as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee -- dealing directly with Clinton...
Still, there are questions raised by the leap from academia to policy-making, despite the successes of figures such as Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...Senator Daniel P. Moynihan...
...Daniel Moynihan. Having succeeded Bentsen as Finance Committee chairman, Moynihan, the former Harvard professor who was a "new Democrat" while Bill Clinton was still in Yale Law School, has fired a few broadsides of his own at the Clinton White House. Now, though, he may be able to help salvage the President's deficit-reduction package. Moynihan is passionately opposed to entitlement caps, and charges that the Boren-Danforth amendment would cut the "earned benefits" of more than 15 million Social Security recipients...
...Democrat from New York has pledged to see that the President's bill is passed. "We have to get together on this," he says, "since the Administration has so much at stake." It will be Moynihan's job to get the bill through his committee. If he cannot, he and majority leader Mitchell will probably try to bring the bill, perhaps with compromises on taxation and spending, to the Senate floor anyway...