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Top 10 List of Negotiating Points in the Budget Battle Between Congress and the Administration
10. Newt wants Air Force One every other weekend and for two weeks every summer.
9. Now, Congress insists on balancing the budget in 6 years, 10 months.
8. Clinton wants to lift the speed limit in the McDonald's Drive Through.
7. Arianna Huffington and Claiborne Pell are lobbying hard to keep the funding for the Pentagon's psychic friends network.
6. Strom Thurmond wants to raise the retirement age - to 90.
5. Gingrich still peeved that Willard Scott gets to play Santa every year at the White House.
4. Bob Dole wants the tax cut checks sent out a couple days before the New Hampshire primary.
3. Dick Gephardt won't go along until someone -- anyone -- returns his phone calls.
2. House Budget Committee Chairman,
John Kasich of Ohio, won't cut a deal until Baltimore gives the Browns
back to Cleveland.
And, the number one negotiating point in the budget battle between
Congress and the Administration:
1. Who's buying the coffee and donuts?
Author: Unknown
Received: December 1996