Word: session
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush was confident he could navigate the tax-cut terrain. After his first successful legislative session as Texas governor, when he and the Democrats in the legislature had cut deals on welfare and juvenile-justice reform, Bush proposed a total overhaul of the unfair property-tax system. His plan was widely viewed as a make-or-break gambit. "He absolutely cannot politically afford for it to fail," wrote the Houston Chronicle at the time, if he had any hopes of higher office. His plan would have slashed property taxes as much as 40 percent, but made up the lost revenue...
Fiore said the experience of hearing his music performed was fantastic, but that the session was also unnerving...
Bush's campaign finance reform plan also bans lobbyists from contributing to members of Congress while Congress is in session. This change dramatically enforces the integrity of our governmental processes as special interests or companies will be restricted from improperly influencing legislative decisions. Gore does recognize that this procedure is important--his plan only requires that lobbyists disclose their activities and does nothing to prevent companies or other lobbies from influencing legislative affairs. As part of his commitment to restoring dignity to the federal government, Bush would prohibit special interests from unfairly influencing matters that should be left for constituents...
...laws themselves. All Congress needs to do is take a vote and gross examples of unfairness disappear. Unfortunately, Congress has not acted on three simple bills that presented opportunities to fix the barbaric 1996 immigration law. The first bill, which was dropped in a GOP closed-door session earlier this month, would have restored health care benefits for pregnant legal immigrants and their newborn children. Such Medicare coverage was cut in 1996, even though legal immigrants pay taxes and have to bear all the responsibilities of citizens. Beyond the moral abhorrence of denying health care to newborns, there...
...Chairman Alan Greenspan showed few such signs of concern last week. As Wall Streeters reached for airsick bags, he calmly flew to Boston for a long-scheduled session with fellow bankers. Greenspan believes U.S. economic fundamentals are solid. Fed vice chairman Roger Ferguson told TIME, "The economy is cooling from its unsustainable pace of earlier this year, but recent data certainly don't suggest a dangerous slowdown...