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...Peter Dominic (R-N.M.), chair of theSenate Budget Committee, has released his fiscalyear 1996 budget draft, which was recently passedby the Senate and called for one trillion dollarsworth of cuts over the next seven years...
Reviving a hot-button issue from the 1988 presidential election, Rep. Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.) testified at a House subcommittee hearing that "Eighty percent of the American people" want a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration. Solomon, chief sponsor of such a bill, which the House is expected to take up next month, says flag burning is not speech or expression but "a hateful tantrum," and should not be protected. Opponents of the bill say it would infringe on free-speech rights and amounts to "constitutional desecration." Supporters say the measure already has 272 of the 290 votes it needs...
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...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) -- two of Washington's most steadfast deficit hawks -- today proposed legislation to permit Americans to deduct every dollar they save and invest. The plan, asimplification of the tax codealong the lines of the Individual Retirement Account, arrives just as federal income tax reform is shaping up as a major issue in the1996 presidential election. GOP senators and White House hopefulsRichard Lugar of IndianaandArlen Specter of Pennsylvaniahave already embraced a "flat tax," andBob Doleis thinking it over...
...Department that it might unleash anew wave of refugeesin retaliation against GOP efforts to tighten the three-decade-old U.S. embargo on the country. The Washington Post reported today that Cuba told U.S. diplomats that itsrefugee flowwould become "difficult to control" if Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) succeeds with a bill that would punishforeign companies that do business with Cuba.TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothsays the Helms bill is expected to pass, but Clinton Administration officials plan to forestall a Cuban crisis by promising not to enforce it. Administration officials said today that Havana...