Word: petted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clean" depreciation and income-tax bill that Congress just might be persuaded to pass swiftly. He will present other tax changes later. By doing so, Reagan is running a conscious risk that Congress will be tempted to festoon the first bill with all kinds of amendments embodying legislators' pet tax ideas...
Administration strategists are keenly aware that if every committee in Congress is asked to approve reductions in its pet programs, the budget-cutting drive may bog down in a hopeless tangle. Said Democratic Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin: "The way this town works, a lot of the turkeys will be salvaged and useful programs will be gutted." Accordingly, Reagan's legislative aides tentatively decided last week to wrap almost all of the program into four superbills. They are: the tax bill; a "recision" bill ordering reductions of $13 billion in spending for the remainder of fiscal 1981, which ends...
Tsongas also responds defensively when challenged on his commitment and the commitment of his Congressional allies to make the cuts in federal spending needed to improve the nation's economy. He admits that all legislators have a privilege to sponsor pet projects, only some deserve more of a privilege than others...
...sitting here is because I could afford to go to good schools (Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard), and the only reason I could do that was because I was able to get loans," Tsongas explains. "Providly student loans...lets your best people rise through the system...you can call that a pet project. What about tobacco subsidies? What's more important? Clearly you have to make those judgements...
Eric Heiden, 22, does not mince words about his pet peeves. "I hate New York," says the Wisconsin-born Olympic speed skater. "If you don't walk ten miles an hour there, you're run over." Same goes for Manhattan's Central Park: "In Madison, it would be condemned." Nor is the winner of five gold medals fond of being a celebrity: "If I wanted to become famous, I would have stuck to hockey." As for all the commercial offers he rejects: "I don't want to have to go places to keep appointments...