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...compromise plan that would balance the budget within seven years, cut taxes by $245 billion and slow Medicare and Medicaid spending. "We have a deal," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told reporters, as he came out of a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Senate Budget Chairman Pete Domenici andHouse Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich."You're going to love it," Gingrich said. "You get more take home pay." President Clinton, who favorsa 10-year balanced budget with fewer cuts in social services,has his veto pen ready...
...Smith was new to the job and nervous. But his course produced one of the most exciting Opens in history, with Ray Floyd emerging from a pack of 10 golfers. This time, Smith is a little more confident. "Jack Nicklaus was here the other day, and he said, 'Pete, I can't wait to get back here next week.' That made me feel a lot better...
...Clinton's audition as a deficit-fighter. Top Republicans now say they believe his alternative 10-year timetable relied onoverly-optimistic economic scenarios and failed to cut Medicare and social services enough."I don't believe it comes close to balancing in 10 years," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). The White House, which plans to market Clinton's ideas as the more humane route to fiscal responsibility, immediately fired back. "They can't pass a budget over a veto," White House budget chief Alice Rivlin told reporters. Clinton has already alienated congressional Democrats by compromising...
...master of hardball politics-- isn't giving up. The California governor told supporters this morning that he'llofficially announce his bid for the 1996 GOP presidential nominationnext Thursday on CNN's "Larry King Live." To make his intentions clear, Wilson's campaign office in downtown Sacramento unfurled banners saying "Pete Wilson for President." The determined governor dismissed recent political gossip suggesting that he would drop the idea of running: "There have been a lot of rumors to the contrary put out by people engaged in wishful thinking...
California Governor Pete Wilson -- an all but declared presidential candidate -- signed an executive order unilaterally curtailing or dismantling state affirmative-action policies where possible. Wilson, who was once a supporter of affirmative action and is now seeking to position himself in the G.O.P.'s conservative mainstream, decried "the tension and unfairness this system of racial spoils has produced...