Word: gingrichs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before he can even get that far, Gingrich has promised to do something even harder: find the money to pay for the tax cuts. The first place the Budget Committee and the appropriators will look is this year's budget, but with the fiscal year already three months old, they will not find the big money they need there, even if they obliterate several existing programs. Next, in separate legislation, they will turn to future years, but will have to balance the tax-cut goal with another of the contract's promises: beefing up the Pentagon budget...
...Gingrich's Republicans are already in the dizzying position of being the leaders and watching the Democrats starting to play the spoilers. Weeks before the session began, House minority leader Dick Gephardt, determined to prove that his Democrats are still in the game, came forward with a tax-cut plan that is both cheaper than Gingrich's and more closely targeted to the middle class. One of Gingrich's recent planning sessions came on a morning when the Washington Post had announced what would have seemed preposterous before the election: the Clinton White House was actually thinking about killing...
Dressed in a maroon turtleneck and khakis, Kasich had dropped by Gingrich's office to present his latest proposals for one of the biggest challenges in selling the "Contract with America": making the numbers add up. Most of the . other new G.O.P. leaders had gathered around the coffee table where he sat, anxious to see how Kasich was faring with a job that defies political physics: figuring out how to spend more than $100 billion over the next five years on an income-tax cut, as well as numerous tax breaks for wealthy investors and business, while beefing up spending...
Passing around a list of every function in the budget, Kasich said, "All of these groups will be looked at under the prism of can it be eliminated, can it be privatized, can it be cut?" Hearing the magnitude of Kasich's plan for the first time, Gingrich was concerned. "The other committees are all going to jump on you," he warned Kasich. Soon-to-be majority leader Dick Armey of Texas added a stern caution of his own: "If you get out too far ahead of us, you're going to be out there alone...
They agreed that Kasich would submit another list the following Monday -- one, Gingrich instructed, that would begin with the 70% of the budget that is hardest to cut. Kasich interrupted, "I can give it to you now -- Medicare and Medicaid...