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Perhaps the President considers the amendment issue an unnecessary national reform which Republicans are using to criticize his administration. This scenario is clearly invalid. Many Republicans do support the amendment. However, so does Independent Ross Perot. And so does bleeding-heart Rep. Joseph. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and liberal Senator Paul Simon (D-III.). Already, 240 members of the House of Representatives have signed on as sponsors to the current amendment proposal. In the last session of Congress, the balanced-budget amendment was only nine votes short of passage in the House. And thirty states--only four short of the necessary...
...group of business leaders and lobbyists, peered into the abyss. He described open-ended decline, a most un- American falling off. Salesmanship: for an instant, Clinton touched the American fear that the nation might find itself transformed, for the worse, beyond recognition. But then he proffered the brighter scenario, if things are done the Administration's way: a growing economy, jobs, the "great American middle class" rewarded for its labors and sturdy virtues...
Even the most optimistic budgetary scenario presented to the Cambridge City Council finance committee last night calls for a property tax levy at about the legal maximum and no new spending initiatives...
...only scenario devised so far which would not create a revenue gap for the city assumes that departments will be funded at the 1993 level and that all employees and retirees--except those of the fire department, whose contracts extend through fiscal year 1994--will be switched to HMO Blue by July...
...manager's office projects that under this scenario, the city will be able to provide four percent cost-of-living salary increases in fiscal year 1994 and a 10 percent increase in pensions-and still remain just below the legal tax levy, Maloney said...