October 1, 1995. Bob Dole, Senate majority leader and presidential candidate, is working to shepherd an omnibus spending bill incorporating the GOP's seven-year deficit reduction plan to passage, around the promised veto of Bill Clinton. A marquee feature is $245 billion tax cuts, scaled down from the Contract with America's call for $354 billion but representing a consensus GOP figure since legislation took shape in the House and Senate in the spring of the year. After months of Democratic attacks, however,a Washington Post poll finds that 69 percent of respondents deemed "leaving Medicare services basically as they are now" to be more important that cutting taxes.
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Back to the future: Norquist's extortion
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October 1, 1995. Bob Dole, Senate majority leader and presidential candidate, is working to shepherd an omnibus spending bill incorporating the GOP's seven-year deficit reduction plan to passage, around the promised veto of Bill Clinton. A marquee feature is $245 billion tax cuts, scaled down from the Contract with America's call for $354 billion but representing a consensus GOP figure since legislation took shape in the House and Senate in the spring of the year. After months of Democratic attacks, however,a Washington Post poll finds that 69 percent of respondents deemed "leaving Medicare services basically as they are now" to be more important that cutting taxes.