Word: republican
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More striking than the size of the Pentagon's proposed cutback was the timing of its announcement. Bush has become adept at letting the most conservative Cabinet members announce liberal-sounding policy changes that could anger the Republican right. It thus fell to Cheney to disclose that the Pentagon is examining conventional-weapons cuts that would go beyond Bush's plan, unveiled at last May's NATO summit, to reduce U.S. and Soviet forces to 275,000 each. Some Pentagon officials are worried that the talk about reducing defense spending could, in the words of one, give some allies...
...time he was asked whether the money he gave to California's Alan Cranston, Michigan's Donald Riegle, Ohio's John Glenn and Arizona's Dennis DeConcini and John McCain had persuaded them to intervene with federal regulators on his behalf, Keating baldly declared, "I certainly hope so." Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, one of the few members of the House Banking Committee who does not accept contributions from political action committees, says that if the allegations against him are true, Keating is "a financiopath of obscene proportions -- the Rev. Jim Bakker of American commerce...
...domestic priority might sound like a chapter out of the Republican platform. But there is a difference. I mean it and they...
...Republican legislative leaders have disputedthe deficit estimate and contend it has beeninflated in a Democratic push for new taxes...
...think they have enough votes for it,and I think they're losing votes as it drags on,"said Rep. Barbara E. Gray (R-Framingham), who,like many of her Republican colleagues, opposes atax increase until further cuts in the budget aremade...