Word: recess
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...will be required to implement the plan, which only sets budgetary outlines. In other budget matters, a $16.4 billion package of cuts in the current year's budget-originally vetoed by the President but since modified by Republicans to obtain his support-was stalled just before the July 4 recess by two Senate Democrats who said the cuts were still too drastic...
...according to advance word, 1945 is a work of art compared with To Renew America, which was written in about two weeks. During the congressional Easter recess, ghostwriter Bill Tucker went to Gingrich's home in Marietta, Georgia, and extracted 70,000 words from the Speaker. "He's been saying the same thing since he was 15," says Tucker. "I just had to get him to make it shorter." The book repackages the sayings of Speaker Newt, lectures from his college course and riffs on the Contract with America...
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...
...nobles and the commoners. Traditionally the British king would bribe Scottish nobles into abandoning the battlefield before the war could begin. But in this case, William (a mere plebian) rides insolently into the discussion and starts the war with a few remarks that he must have learned at recess in Scottish elementary school. When they finally get down to fighting, the camera dips and swoops through the battlefield, careening realistically through the carnage...
...major quandary. Putting a lid on Medicare and its $90 billion sister program, Medicaid, represents the Republicans' best hope for achieving much of the $1.4 trillion in savings they must find if they are to balance the budget and pay for tax cuts. But over their April recess, G.O.P. polls began showing that people are just as protective of Medicare as they are of Social Security...