Word: tax-cutting
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...Helms plans to force Democrats to vote on an education amendment cutting off federal funds to districts that refuse to let Boy Scouts use their schools because the groups won't admit gay members. Two of the endangered districts are in Kennedy's Massachusetts. G.O.P. whip Don Nickles has tax-cut amendments to tack on to next week's patient's bill of rights. And Lott threatens a filibuster to keep Democrats from organizing the Senate under their control if Daschle won't let him have floor votes on Bush nominees that are bottled up in committee...
...Whenever you start a tax-cut feeding frenzy in Washington it's almost impossible to turn it off. A sampling of special interest cuts lawmakers are eager to attach to future tax bills...
...state Democrats from fighting for the right to challenge him. Even former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said last week that she's considering it. Many blacks and Jews still blame him for disenfranchising them last November. As state revenues are shrinking, Republicans have cut his $313 million tax-cut plan almost in half this month, and his government downsizing efforts have sparked state-employee demonstrations. "Jeb's conservative agenda is remarkably out of touch with the majority of Floridians," says Democratic Congressman Jim Davis, a possible challenger...
Next year, he estimates, the tax cut would make the difference between 2.6% and 3.4% growth. He believes the tax cut would significantly buoy employment and do little to stir inflation. Adds Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley: "These tax cuts are a big deal. The tax-cut train has left the station, and it is clearly going to be stimulative...
...path to defection was punctuated by rifts - some quiet, some very public. In 1981, Jeffords was the sole Republican in the House of Representatives to vote against President Reagan?s tax-cut proposal. Ten years later, when Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, Senator Jeffords voted against the appointment. In 1994, when the national Republican party began its most recent list to the right, Senator Jeffords took stock and decided that despite his disagreements with the tenor of the Gingrich revolution, he would stay on as a Republican. When the Senate voted against impeaching President Clinton, Jeffords...