Word: zeros
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...could be done without hurting anybody. Such oratory, it has long been understood, is the accepted substitute for actually doing anything to bring federal spending back into line with revenues. But to set a hard date, fiscal year 2002, for cutting deficits all the way down to zero? And put real numbers on the table -- as much as $1.4 trillion less spending over the next seven years? And make specific suggestions about where the money should come from, including a hit list of 284 federal agencies and programs to be legislated out of existence? It seems hard to take seriously...
...whirlwind of motion and emotion from Ohio who heads the House Budget Committee, repeatedly proclaims his work to be "a revolution." And for once that overworked clicha might be true. Consider two measures of how many decades of precedent the Republicans intend to reverse. The Senate G.O.P. wants to zero out the Department of Commerce; Kasich's House troops would also wipe out the Departments of Education and Energy. Either move would shrink the number of Cabinet departments for the first time in 48 years...
Kasich: One of the most important things that happened is when the balanced-budget amendment went down. That night, somebody came in and told me, "Well, Newt said we're going to zero anyway." And that's when I was convinced that we would actually...
...read numbered copies of House budget chief John Kasich's blueprint for slicing an astonishing $1.4 trillion from federal spending over the next seven years. The plan would eliminate the departments of Energy, Commerce and Education, cut cost-of-living increases for federal pensioners, slash foreign aid sharply, and zero out Clinton's pet achievement, the national-service program. Even during the retreat, House members were forming "rump groups" to contest specific cuts, particularly the farm subsidies that Kasich has slated for major reductions. The hysteria will mount this week when Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici makes his plan...
Some 10 bands are also scheduled to appear on two stages. The main stage features G-Love and Special Sauce, Spatula, Swedish Cookie, Fuzzy Navel and Daily Planet. Its smaller counterpart will host several other Harvard bands, including Mezzaluna, Blanket Envy, Steamship of Beef, Ground Zero and Jaws of Clay...