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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...
...budget proposal headed to a House vote, Bill Clinton fended off assaults in Congress from his own party. Fearing an antitax backlash among voters, moderate and conservative House Democrats demanded more spending cuts, in particular caps on Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlement programs. Clinton tried to put down the revolt at a meeting with the House Democratic caucus and the party congressional leadership. "If you'll go out on a limb," he told them, "I'll go out with you." But a more dangerous mutiny began in the Senate, where a bipartisan group led by Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma...
...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 from the floor, most insiders thought the House rebellion could be contained...
...three fellow rebels -- Democrat Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and Republicans John Danforth of Missouri and William Cohen of Maine -- unveiled a plan of their own. The so- called Boren-Danforth amendment features lower taxes and more spending cuts than the President's proposal, as well as a cap on entitlements spending. The Boren-Danforth bill would also completely eliminate Clinton's energy levy -- the so-called BTU tax. Altogether, the plan would raise taxes $122 billion less than Clinton's proposal and would cut spending $163 billion more. Over five years, it would reduce the deficit $542 billion, compared with...
...cap what Americans need to spend on health care...