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Rudenstine and the other presidents are lobbying against these proposed cuts and pushing instead for an increase in research funding--to come out of the projected budget surplus...
...with White House negotiators. So far, the Republicans have sent Clinton just four of the 13 spending bills for the coming fiscal year, and the White House has threatened vetoes of six of the others. Desperate for cash that won?t bust the spending caps and eat into the surplus (although that will certainly happen eventually), they?ve tapped $3 billion in unused state welfare money to make some ends meet, which has governors and Democrats screaming mugging. With an October 1 due date for all 13 bills, GOPers are scrambling to draft a stopgap spending bill (to avoid...
...certainly cannot claim the high ground. After insisting that they would not exceed spending limits, the Republicans are now calling the 2000 census an "emergency" in order to make their excessive spending exempt from the caps. It is ironic that Republicans insist that there is almost $800 billion in surplus for a tax cut yet they cannot yet stay inside their self-imposed spending caps. In fact, both parties knew that the spending caps would eventually be exceeded, but neither one wanted to do it first, or publicly...
...need wise spending decisions in times of plenty even more than when we were running huge deficits and there were fewer choices. So far both parties have dealt with the surplus disingenuously, seemingly too willing to sacrifice compromise for political advantage. This is no time for Congress to embrace our recent prosperity with ill-timed and ill-conceived measures...
...could win, and seems resurrected solely to follow through on a promise Clinton made in January?s State of the Union address. "As complex as this litigation is, there?s going to be a strong desire to settle on both sides," says Sanders. And as badly as the surplus-minded Clinton could use $75 billion, a legacy-building handcuffing of Big Tobacco is priceless...