Word: cuttingly
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...felony or getting caught with drugs to be kicked off welfare permanently. The second, "full-family sanctions," would have seen to it that if a mother receiving welfare benefits failed to cooperate with authorities--for example, by not showing up for job training--her entire family would be cut off, kids and all. "Bush's staff worked hard at this," says Patrick Bresette of the Center for Public Policy Priorities. "But the legislature didn't want to go that far. Not one single measure got out of the senate...
...levies some fines, but they apply to less than 5% of the plants, according a study by the Environmental Defense Fund. And since November 1997, when sign-up began, only 33 of the 160 biggest industrial plants have volunteered. Of those 33, only three have taken steps to cut their emissions. Questioned about this during an interview with TIME, Bush became irritated. "Well, maybe we need to increase the fines during the next legislative session," he said. "I'm a practical person. I'm sorry you're skeptical, or the Sierra Club is skeptical. Sometimes when people...
There is a reason the tax-cut bill left Bush a bit tongue tied: behind the scenes, his campaign operatives have been working hard against it, congressional sources tell TIME. The last thing they want before an election in which Bush is promising relief to taxpayers is for someone else to get there first. Especially since it poses the prospect of the photo op from hell--the image of Al Gore smiling over the shoulder of Bill Clinton as he signs a tax cut for which everyone gets credit except the Republican nominee...
...styles himself an outsider, those are impressive inside moves. The problem is that "what Austin wants" carries a lot less weight in the Republicans' inner councils than it did a few months ago. G.O.P. sources tell TIME that last fall, after Clinton vetoed Congress's $792 billion tax cut, it was pressure from the Bush campaign that helped shut down Republican discussions of whether to chop that tax relief into smaller pieces, pass it in increments and force the President's hand. Now that the Bush campaign has stumbled, lawmakers are far less certain of the Texas Governor's ability...
Meanwhile, it has not escaped notice on Capitol Hill that McCain's approach of using the surplus to pay down the debt, rather than spending it on huge tax cuts, is gaining traction with voters, including conservative Republicans. "Bush can't sell a tax cut, because it's wildly unpopular," says one who has been involved in G.O.P. strategy discussions. "Debt reduction would be much smarter...