Word: stenholm
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...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...
...House of Representatives, where three-fifths of the seats are held by Democrats, a vote scheduled for this week seemed likely to go the President's way, despite the apostasy of such Democrats as Tim Penny of Minnesota, Charles Stenholm of Texas and Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma, who opposed an energy tax and said they favored an amendment that would cap spending on entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare. With Clinton enjoying the support of House Speaker Tom Foley and Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, however, and with the nearly ironclad protection of House rules discouraging amendments...
...reason for this is that Clinton and his team are emerging as adroit behind-the-scenes operators. For two weeks House Democrats such as Tim Penny of Minnesota, Charles Stenholm of Texas and Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma had been pressing party leaders to consider an additional $82 billion in cuts, including $20 billion in Clinton's new "investment" programs. The moderates want to gut the space station, the supercollider and a number of weapons projects, such as the V-22 Osprey and remnants of the Strategic Defense Initiative and apply the proceeds to deficit reduction. The centrist faction was bolstered...
...complicated roll-call votes designed to offer political cover to legislators from both parties, the House Democratic leadership muscled its members into providing 150 of the 153 votes opposed to tinkering with the Constitution. The showdown ballot was on an amendment by conservative Texas Democratic Congressman Charles Stenholm that would have required a three- fifths vote of Congress for the government to engage in deficit spending; implementation would have been shrewdly delayed until 1997, when Bush and many current legislators would not have to deal with the resulting budgetary and legal chaos. Small wonder that Democratic Congressman Mike Synar ridiculed...