Word: slashingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next two years, to $5.15. The proposal, if not already moot, is certain to ignite a major fight with congressional Republicans. A spat is also sure to erupt when the President formally unveils his $1.6 trillion budget this week. While promising to eliminate or consolidate hundreds of programs and slash $144 billion in spending over the next five years, the President's plans do not cut deeply enough to balance the budget by 2002, which Republicans vow they will do-though how remains to be determined...
...Republicans in Congress must not expect to be in office for very long. Why else would they be mortgaging the country's future by threatening to slash student loans...
...Clinton Administration official warned a Senate subcommittee today that the GOP plans to slash the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development should be reconsidered, since the agency is committed to substantial long-term contracts that cannot easily be dropped. The panel was reviewing $800 million in cuts over five years proposed by Secretary Henry Cisneros. Many Republican Senators say the cuts aren't deep enough. TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan notes that this is a story likely to be repeated several times in the next few weeks as the GOP faces the reality that...
...space colonies), Gingrich is providing the energy, imagination and confidence that, at least at this pregnant moment, seem lacking among other leaders of both parties. The new Speaker will gavel the House down to real work three weeks earlier than usual. He will move immediately to slash congressional staff and change the way it operates. He will seek speedy passage of a balanced-budget amendment, tax breaks, spending cuts and other measures the Republicans promised in their "Contract with America...
...minute address to the House, Gingrich said he had two over-riding goals: to achieve a balanced budget by 2002 and "to truly replace the current welfare state with an opportunity society." He swore in the new members of the House and began debate on rule changes that would slash committee staffs, abolish three House committees and require a three-fifths vote to raise income tax rates. Republicans now have majorities in both chambers: 230-204 with one independent in the House, and 53-47 in the Senate. Congressional Democrats said they'd cooperate with the GOP majority; however, House...