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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neocon who wrote (137746)	4/12/2001 11:15:09 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) of 769667

Neo, Did you know that Texas ran a huge deficit this past year? Did Bush tell you the truth about his fiscal record? AMERICA'S FISCAL FUTURE: TEXAS. Deja W. by Jason Zengerle Post date 03.22.01 \| Issue date 04.02.01 Chris Harris may not be a household name. But in the halls of the Texas capitol he cuts a large figure. After 16 years in the legislature, the 52-year-old Republican state senator, who currently serves as the Senate's president pro tempore and vice chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, is one of Austin's "gray heads." And with his staunch conservative voting record--he's been likened to Attila the Hun--Harris is also one of the Texas GOP's favorite politicians. As then-Governor George W. Bush put it in 1996, "We can't afford not to have Chris Harris in the Senate." So what does Harris think of his old ally's $1.6 trillion tax cut proposal currently before Congress? He won't say. But you can more or less guess from his recent statements about Texas's budget mess--which is as bad as it has been in a decade. After wholeheartedly supporting Bush's $3 billion in tax cuts in 1997 and 1999--when Texas boasted budget surpluses of $1.9 billion and $6.4 billion, respectively--Harris has expressed some buyer's remorse now that Texas is looking at a potential $700 million budget shortfall. "There's no question I would have voted for some of the tax cuts," Harris recently confessed to The Houston Chronicle, "but maybe not to the volume that we did." Indeed, Harris's regrets are so great that he recently proposed a constitutional amendment to roll back Bush's 1997 property-tax-relief measure, one of the then-governor's proudest accomplishments thenewrepublic.com Scumbria

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