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WASHINGTON (AP) — In an all
but fatal blow. Sen. Robert Torricelli
announced opposition Wednesday to
the Republican-drafted balanced bud
get amendment to the Constitution.
He said the proposal could ham
string future generations confronting
a military crisis, recession or the need
for federal construction.
“We write not for our time but for
all times,” said Torricelli, D-NJ., who
has supported similar constitutional
amendments in the past. When it
comes to making a change in the 210
year-old Constitution, he added, “good
is not good enough.”
The freshman New Jersey Demo
crat thus became the 34th Democrat
to oppose the measure, enough to en
sure its defeat.
Republicans rushed to attack
Torricelli for breaking a campaign
promise. “He has thumbed his nose at
the people of New Jersey once and for
all,” charged Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott.
At the same time, Torricelli’s de
cision confronted Lott with a choice
between offering concessions in hopes
of gaining the elusive 67th vote in
support of the measure or watching it
go down to the narrowest of defeats
next week and trying to pin the blame
on the Democrats.
The White House issued a state
ment in which President Clinton said
he was pleased with Torricelli’s deci
sion. He added it was now “time to
get down to the hard work of balanc
ing the budget.”
The proposal, a cornerstone of the
Republican congressional agenda,
would require a balanced budget by
2002, with a three-fifths vote of the
House and Senate to run a deficit
thereafter. It cleared the House two
years ago, when the Republican revo
lution was in full flower, but fell one
vote shy of passage in the Senate.
This time, it bogged down in the
House, where some Republicans
flinched in the face of Democratic
charges that it could threaten Social
Security benefits. That prompted the
GOP leadership to try to push it
through the Senate first.
Republicans argued the measure
was heeded to instill fiscal discipline
in a government that has run deficits
for nearly three decades. To drama
tize their point, they stacked budget
bodes several feet high on desks in the
front row of the Senate, one thick vol
ume for each of the years the budget
has been unbalanced.
Within the new Senate, where all
55 Republicans support the measure,
it quickly became clear that the swing
votes were held by four newly elected
Democratic senators.
Two of them, Max Cleland of
Georgia and Mary Landrieu of Loui
siana, announced their reluctant sup
port over the past several days.
Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota
declared his opposition last week, even
though he, like Torricelli, had sup
ported a similar amendment only two
years ago. And shortly after
Torricelli’s announcement, the Repub
lican National Committee disclosed it
would begin airing radio commercials
in South Dakota on Thursday saying
Johnson “broke his promise.”
Torricelli voted for similar amend- j
ments twice before, most recently in
1995 in the House when he was pre
paring for his Senate candidacy. He
told reporters that he had done so to
get the attention of Presidents Bush
and Clinton at a time when deficits
were approaching $300 billion. In the
interim, he said, the deficit is closer
to $100 billion, and added, “I could
no longer claim that I was using this
to make a point.”
In morning remarks in the Senate,
Torricelli criticized the Republican
amendment and proposed changes to
make it easier to run a deficit in times
of military crisis or recession and to
provide for a separate Jbudget for capi
tal construction such as roads, bridges
and universities.
He cited World War I and World
War II, as well as the Gulf War, as
examples of episodes in which criti
cal deficit spending occurred well in
advance of a war.
“I do not want any foreign adver
sary to ever miscalculate (that) because
we are unable to reach a three-fifths
vote, we will also be unable to defend
the United States,” he said.
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McDonald’s planning
to cut Big Mac price
to lowest ever: 55 cents
CHICAGO(AP)—McDonald’s is
planning a real Big Mac attack, offer
ing the sandwich at its lowest price
ever — 55 cents.
The fast-food giant will be taking
a loss. The cost of the ingredients
alone — two all-beef patties, special
sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions
and a sesame seed bun — is about 40
cents. But McDonald’s hopes to make
it up by drawing in more customers
and requiring that the Big Mac be sold
with a drink and fries.
The Big Mac, introduced in 1972,
normally sells for about $2.
McDonald’s will put the “Cam
paign 55” promotion to a vote today
in a closed-circuit telecast to its 2,700
franchisees.
McDonald’s recently began cutting
prices of some products, including
Chicken McNuggets, and offering two
Big Macs for $2. But the new cuts
would significantly raise the stakes in
the battle to win back customers from
Burger King and Wendy’s.
Campaign 55 refers to the year
McDonald’s was founded. The 55-cent
» package will rotate over the next year
from the Big Mac to the Quarter
Pounder to the McRib and the Arch
Deluxe.
Questions? Commsnts? Ask for the
appropriate section editor at472-2588
or e-mail dnQunlinfo.unl.edu.
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Managing Editor: Faula Lavigne
Associate Joshua Giliin
News Editors: Chad Lorenz
Night Editor Anne Hjereman
Opinion Editor: Anthony Nguyen
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Copy Desk Chief: Julie Sobczyk
Sports Editor Trevor Parks
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Photo Director Scott Bruhn
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