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Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) blinked today, announcing that Republicans want to create a bipartisan congressional commission to work out the details of theirpolitically-sensitive plan to balance the budgetwithin seven years. The tactic, announced a day before House and Senate GOP leaders are due to unveil their respective budget cut proposals, is an attempt to draw Democrats into a potentially-explosive budget process that may include up to$300 million in Medicare cuts. Also today, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, advocated raising the eligibility age for Medicare...
...example, take the ROTC Campus Access Act, which was introduced in Congress last month by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif). This bill would deny all federal monies, including funds for financial aid and scientific research, to universities like Harvard that refuse to allow ROTC programs to operate on campus. If passed and signed into law, Harvard would almost certainly have to reinstate ROTC on campus, because it depends so much on cash from Washington...
...Dornan (R-Calif.), the conservative firebrand who launched a bid for the GOP presidential nomination Thursday , isn't going to let his opposition to affirmative action get in the way of quotas. In a CNN interview today, Dornan promised to name his running mate by Christmas and that "that man or woman of course will be conservative, but will most probably be of Jewish heritage or African-American heritage." Tired of senators' frequent appearances on national tickets, the congressman also pledged to select most of his Cabinet secretaries from the House of Representatives if he wins...
...passed, the "ROTC Campus Access Act" which was introduced by Representative Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) would cut deeply into research and student aid monies at Harvard, which booted ROTC off campus more than two decades...
...three more members of Congress--Rep. JohnDoolittle (R-Calif.), Rep. Michael Forbes (R-N.Y.)and Rep. Jerry Solomon (R-N.Y.)--have signed on asco-sponsors to the bill, Hardiman said yesterday...