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...legislation that would separate the tax cut from the balanced budget. Republicans would first pass a budget plan, and then address tax cuts." While the idea is likely to get a good reception in the Senate, Tumulty notes, it faces steeper opposition in the House from GOP freshmen still intent on achieving the Contract With America goal of a balanced budget combined with tax cuts. Republicans have been pushing for a $200 billion tax cut over seven years. The Clinton Administration has countered with an offer of $130 billion in cuts, while Congressional Democrats and many hard-line deficit hawks...
...preparation, the consensus among the Crimson is that the players seem intent on playing their game...
...only the first thing to go. Instead of entitlements, he prefers retirement accounts, medical savings accounts and "payments in kind" to welfare mothers, meaning "everything from food to medicine to diapers. Stuff that's hard for a mom to convert for substance abuse." Contrary to reports that he is intent on returning America to the gold standard, he says the gold standard is not a "perfect barometer" and if someone has a better one, "whether wampum, Snickers bars or seashells or whatever, I'll be ready to listen." When he talks about family values, it still all comes down...
Predictably, civil libertarians are uneasy about the proposal, seeing it as yet another assault on free speech in cyberspace. Congress has already signaled its intent to enact legislation that would criminalize "indecent" speech online, rather than adopting the less onerous restriction against "obscene" speech that is the print standard...
...graduates and students of the University who died in defense of the Union, or who served in its defense during the Rebellion of 1861," the deed of gift included the stipulation that "no picture, bust, tablet, monument, or memorial shall be allowed within said Hall inconsistent with its intent." So it was until Edgar H. Wells, editor of The Harvard Alumni Bulletin, raised the issue in an editorial in the Bulletin in 1909, in which he argued that "The Harvard men...whether they fought under the stars and stripes or under the stars and bars were first, last, and always...