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...there is any silver lining, it is perhaps that Radcliffe's multidisciplinary panels saw no deliberate villainy or single cause for blame. "Everyone is looking for scapegoats--the government, welfare mothers, the private sector," says Marina Von Neumann, former chief economist for General Motors. "But there just aren't any scapegoats." Yet the flip side of that, points out Ann Bookman, policy and research director of the women's bureau of the Department of Labor, is that "no one sector can take this on single-handedly...
...lose some of them. "But," he said last week, "you'd better be able to explain why they lost their lives. If you can't rest your actions on a solid base of policy and interest, you will find yourself in an unsupportable situation." To that, Republican Congressman Mark Neumann of Wisconsin adds what might be called the father test. "I evaluate whether this is something we should be doing based on my 18-year-old son," he says. "If I were to ask the question, Do I think my son should go to Bosnia?, I would have to answer...
...Neumann and other freshmen budgeteers of the 104th Congress spent last week's recess on talk shows and in town-hall meetings, explaining what they had done. Says Brad Todd, an aide to Tennessee Congressman Van Hilleary: "We had a lot of educating to do." And while the reaction was, for the most part, complimentary or at least polite, "it's a very volatile situation," notes Representative Enid Waldholtz of Utah. "What we need to do is listen better to what people are saying...
...there was a single issue that set off Neumann's constituents, it was tax cuts. So heated was the local reaction against the proposed cuts that Neumann took to calling the plan passed by Congress "second best." Said Gwen Daluge, a retired schoolteacher from Janesville: "I'm really angry about the Congress wanting to cut taxes when we have a debt like this. We are so much better off than anybody in the world. I just don't think it would hurt us to not cut taxes right now." In Beloit-the Democratic section of the district that Neumann...
...political reality," Neumann explained, "is that the House of Representatives is not going to pass a balanced budget without tax cuts. When I suggested we balance the budget first, I got the door slammed in my face." In fact, against the wishes of senior revolutionaries in the Gingrich revolution, Neumann had proposed balancing the budget in four years, not the favored seven, and without the tax cuts until the deficit was eliminated. His proposal received only 89 votes on the floor but won him applause at home last week...