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...increases at all and an actual reduction of $6.4 billion in domestic spending. White House staffers are talking of lobbying against the compromise budget resolution on the Senate and House floors, and they have a strong chance of defeating it. The prospect so worried New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, head of the Senate conferees, that at week's end he backed away from putting the compromise in final form and instead scheduled further meetings with House conferees to consider changes that might lessen White House opposition...
...maintain the status quo: no raise, no fee restrictions. Senators generally can command higher honorariums than House members. Last year Kansas Republican Robert Dole made $135,750 (of which he donated $51,500 to charity); South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, $92,270 (none to charity); and New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, $84,450 ($27,000 to charity...
Reagan's recalcitrance provoked the Republican-led Senate Budget Committee, headed by Pete Domenici of New Mexico, to send to the floor last month a budget bill written by Democrats based on a plan already passed by the House. It would reduce the projected 1984 deficit to $162 billion by trimming the real increase in defense spending to 5% and raising $30 billion in new tax revenues. Faced with this prospect, Reagan reluctantly relented two weeks ago and gave his tacit support to a compromise fashioned by Domenici and the Senate Republican leadership. It called for a 7.5% rise...
...evening they visit a nearly empty mall because Eric must be isolated against infection. There they window-shop and occasionally play Space Invaders. Pringle gives Eric's medicine a personality. Vincristine, a derivative of the periwinkle plant that is responsible for Eric's baldness, is dubbed "Sheriff Pete Periwinkle," aiming to outdraw the bad blood cells. But the sheriff loses, and the pain returns with a shock: "This five-year-old is no longer protected, and he knows...
...Republicans' disarray was most evident in the Senate Budget Committee, chaired by New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici. The committee stuck to its earlier decision to limit next year's military spending to a real increase of 5%, even though Reagan aides had belatedly signaled that he might accept a 7.5% hike instead of the 10% that he has been demanding. It also recommended raising $267 billion in additional revenue over the next five years to avoid budget deficits of $200 billion or more each year. This new revenue was $60 billion more than the Administration had indicated...