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...George Bush literally running away from a controversial deficit-reduction deal in October 1990, when he dismissed the package with a glib invitation to "Read my hips" during a jog in Florida. Bush's diffidence at the time was an invitation for members of his own party to revolt, and infuriated Budget Director Richard Darman, who later called it the "biggest mistake of Bush's presidency." After watching the Bush tapes, Clinton's aides vowed to make sure that Clinton sells -- and if necessary oversells -- his plan, if that's what it takes to convince Americans of the plan...
...intraparty revolt spread, top House leaders telephoned Clinton and urged him to step back from the budget battle to preserve his leverage for the joint House-Senate conference committee later this summer. It is there, they noted, that the final tax bill will be written; everything until then is mere prelude. Within hours White House officials picked up on the theme. "There's no special magic in the BTU," said a senior official. "What's important is the final product...
...weeks ago, it seemed as if history was about to repeat itself. As the House prepared to take up the President's 1994 budget, Clinton once more faced a mini-revolt by a group of 40 moderate Democrats, led by Congressman Charles Stenholm of Texas, who demanded a stiff cap on entitlement spending to keep the deficit under control. Liberals, led by members of the black and Hispanic caucuses, promised to bolt if Clinton gave the moderates an inch. Round-the- clock talks between the two camps were helping Clinton maintain a shaky majority in the House...
This latest tussle was easily the most significant legislative debate so far in the 103rd Congress. At stake was the President's proposal, which Congress has approved in broad outline, to slice the deficit $496 billion with a blend of spending cuts and tax hikes. But as the revolt on Capitol Hill gained momentum, several alternative plans were put forth, both formally and informally, that had at least three things in common: they sought to minimize the tax bite, maximize budget cuts and reflect the mood of the voters, of which Congress is the all-time champion bellwether...
David Boren. Thorn-of-the-moment in Clinton's side, Boren, a conservative Democrat who represents the oil state of Oklahoma on the Senate Finance Committee, led last week's bipartisan Senate revolt against the Administration's tax plan. At a press conference he and three fellow rebels -- Democrat Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and Republicans John Danforth of Missouri and William Cohen of Maine -- unveiled a plan of their own. The so- called Boren-Danforth amendment features lower taxes and more spending cuts than the President's proposal, as well as a cap on entitlements spending. The Boren-Danforth bill...