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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: chomolungma who wrote (114624)12/13/2000 3:14:31 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (4) of 769670
 
The fate of the Bush agenda is in the hands of Tom Daschle.

" Daschle has already said he is “diametrically opposed” to Bush’s proposal for cuts in income tax rates for all taxpayers. He also indicated he would lead the opposition to Bush’s proposal to allow younger workers
to invest part of their payroll tax payments in private retirement accounts, and to his idea for redesigning federal
aid to low-income schools by offering parents vouchers they could use at private schools. "

“The past six weeks make a difference” in the Senate confirmation process, he said, “but so do the past six years.”
The Senate confirmation process has become more partisan and less courteous. By delaying or defeating presidential
appointees, “the Senate takes revenge against a president they don’t like, or takes hostages against a presidential policy they
don’t approve of,” Light said. He also points out that Bush and his team will be seriously behind schedule in drafting a
revised federal budget for submission to Congress in February. Light said President Reagan’s first budget director, David
Stockman, “worked for 2 1/2 months on the 1981 budget and still made mistakes that wreaked havoc with the federal
deficit, and created a political firestorm with proposed Social Security cuts.”

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