William Philip "Phil" Gramm (born July 8, 1942) is an American economist and politician, who has served as a DemocraticCongressman (1979–1983), a RepublicanCongressman (1983–1985) and a Republican Senator (1985–2002) from Texas. He later became a lobbyist for UBS and founded a public policy and lobbying firm, Gramm Partners. He was a senior economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign from the summer of 2007 until July 18, 2008.
Early life and university career
Gramm was born on July 8, 1942 in Fort Benning, Georgia, and grew up in nearby Columbus.
Soon after his birth, Gramm's father Kenneth suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed. He died when Gramm was 14. Gramm's mother, Florence (née Scoggins), worked double shifts as a nurse to supplement the veteransdisability pension.
"Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are."
"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people"
"If I bought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog"
"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."
"The people who are dragging American bodies (through Somalia) don't look very hungry to the people of Texas"
"I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money."
"I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis"
"I didn't expect anybody on the House side to get out in front,"
"Each member is going to answer for where they were when Medicare went broke,"
"It says 'In God We Trust' on our coins, but it isn't that way in our hearts,"
"It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to."
Phil Gramm: Beware When Someone Says, "I Have an Idea"
Texas U,S. Senator Phil Gramm came home to Georgia to declare there was no doubt in his mind that President Bill Clinton's unpopular Hillary Care health care reform effort was the driving political story of the previous two years, and one that turned the 1994 national election to the Republican column. "It is not an overstatement to say that we had our first referendum in American history on big government and government lost the referendum,":Gramm said. Although he was born and raised in Georgia, Gramm's entire U.S. House and Senate political career was in representation of Texas. In 2001, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation honored Senator Phil Gramm with its Freedom Award.
published: 23 Jul 2013
Phil Gramm at AEI: Credit Default Swaps
AEI Event: "Is Deregulation a Cause of the Financial Crisis?" January 23, 2009 http://www.aei.org/event/1862
During the 2008 campaign season, the Democrats blamed the financial crisis on Republican deregulation, in particular the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). The GLBA repealed the provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prevented affiliations between commercial and investment banks, and the CFMA, among other things, exempted credit default swaps and other derivatives from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Although both acts were backed by the Clinton administration, Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas)--then the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee--was the key congressional sponsor of the leg...
published: 19 Aug 2009
USA: PHIL GRAMM DROPS OUT OF REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE
(14 Feb 1996) English/Nat
Phil Gramm, one of the candidates hoping to win the U-S Republican Presidential nomination, has dropped out of the race after poor showings in Louisiana and Iowa.
The departure of the Texas senator leaves the other contenders scrambling to pick up his support.
It was a sombre Phil Gramm who made the announcement everyone had been expecting.
Two years campaigning for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination was over.
He entered the U-S presidential race with momentum, pledging less government and a balanced budget.
But that promise quickly faded, causing the uncharismatic Texas Republican to announce the end of his 1996 bid for the White House after he came a poor fifth in the field in this week's Iowa Caucus.
SOUNDBITE:
"I am today endin...
published: 21 Jul 2015
US: SENATOR PHIL GRAMM CRITICISES CLINTON OVER NORTH KOREA
(28 Nov 1994) Eng/Nat:
A leading US Republican senator has criticised President Clinton over his willingness to fund the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear programme.
The Republican party may block a deal which gives Pyongyang four (b) billion U-S dollars in international aid in return for a promise to end its nuclear activities.
The Republicans say they don't trust North Korea but haven't decided yet if they will stop the agreement.
One leading Republican senator - Phil Gramm from Texas - says the U-S cannot afford the North Korean deal.
SOUND BITE:
"Well, first of all Bill Clinton has got to stop running all over the world and sprinkling around money that we don't have. It is unseemly that everywhere the President goes he's going to give them some of our money. In (No...
published: 21 Jul 2015
Senator Phil Gramm: End Forced Annexation
published: 27 Aug 2015
Keynote Speaker- The Honorable Phil Gramm
published: 09 Oct 2018
NPC Luncheon with Phil Gramm
On March 21, 1995, Republican Senator William "Phil" Gramm spoke to the Press Club about Republican goals in Congress. He talked about lowering the deficit, granting more power to state governments, and cutting taxes. He said these would all be goals of his if elected to the executive branch.
Texas U,S. Senator Phil Gramm came home to Georgia to declare there was no doubt in his mind that President Bill Clinton's unpopular Hillary Care health care re...
Texas U,S. Senator Phil Gramm came home to Georgia to declare there was no doubt in his mind that President Bill Clinton's unpopular Hillary Care health care reform effort was the driving political story of the previous two years, and one that turned the 1994 national election to the Republican column. "It is not an overstatement to say that we had our first referendum in American history on big government and government lost the referendum,":Gramm said. Although he was born and raised in Georgia, Gramm's entire U.S. House and Senate political career was in representation of Texas. In 2001, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation honored Senator Phil Gramm with its Freedom Award.
Texas U,S. Senator Phil Gramm came home to Georgia to declare there was no doubt in his mind that President Bill Clinton's unpopular Hillary Care health care reform effort was the driving political story of the previous two years, and one that turned the 1994 national election to the Republican column. "It is not an overstatement to say that we had our first referendum in American history on big government and government lost the referendum,":Gramm said. Although he was born and raised in Georgia, Gramm's entire U.S. House and Senate political career was in representation of Texas. In 2001, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation honored Senator Phil Gramm with its Freedom Award.
AEI Event: "Is Deregulation a Cause of the Financial Crisis?" January 23, 2009 http://www.aei.org/event/1862
During the 2008 campaign season, the Democrats bl...
AEI Event: "Is Deregulation a Cause of the Financial Crisis?" January 23, 2009 http://www.aei.org/event/1862
During the 2008 campaign season, the Democrats blamed the financial crisis on Republican deregulation, in particular the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). The GLBA repealed the provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prevented affiliations between commercial and investment banks, and the CFMA, among other things, exempted credit default swaps and other derivatives from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Although both acts were backed by the Clinton administration, Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas)--then the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee--was the key congressional sponsor of the legislation. Is it plausible to connect the GLBA and the CFMA with the current financial crisis? Former senator Gramm addressed these and other questions.
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AEI Event: "Is Deregulation a Cause of the Financial Crisis?" January 23, 2009 http://www.aei.org/event/1862
During the 2008 campaign season, the Democrats blamed the financial crisis on Republican deregulation, in particular the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). The GLBA repealed the provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prevented affiliations between commercial and investment banks, and the CFMA, among other things, exempted credit default swaps and other derivatives from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Although both acts were backed by the Clinton administration, Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas)--then the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee--was the key congressional sponsor of the legislation. Is it plausible to connect the GLBA and the CFMA with the current financial crisis? Former senator Gramm addressed these and other questions.
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(14 Feb 1996) English/Nat
Phil Gramm, one of the candidates hoping to win the U-S Republican Presidential nomination, has dropped out of the race after poor ...
(14 Feb 1996) English/Nat
Phil Gramm, one of the candidates hoping to win the U-S Republican Presidential nomination, has dropped out of the race after poor showings in Louisiana and Iowa.
The departure of the Texas senator leaves the other contenders scrambling to pick up his support.
It was a sombre Phil Gramm who made the announcement everyone had been expecting.
Two years campaigning for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination was over.
He entered the U-S presidential race with momentum, pledging less government and a balanced budget.
But that promise quickly faded, causing the uncharismatic Texas Republican to announce the end of his 1996 bid for the White House after he came a poor fifth in the field in this week's Iowa Caucus.
SOUNDBITE:
"I am today ending my campaign for President of the United States. When the voter speaks, I listen, especially when the voter is saying someone else's name."
SUPER CAPTION: Phil Gramm, Former Republican Presidential Candidate
Gramm's departure comes nearly a year after he announced his candidacy for President at a rally attended by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters.
Phil Gramm is not the first to suffer in the merciless weeding-out process that is the US Primaries.
SOUNDBITE:
"The early contests in presidential politics are, for candidates, like running a gauntlet. Some of them don't make it through and others who do may be bloodied and weakened, but they're still alive and still moving towards the finish line."
SUPER CAPTION: Norman Ornstein, Political Analyst
Ornstein (ORN-steen) says there are still four candidates who are moving towards that finish line, including Senator Bob Dole, a four-times Presidential also-ran, but still the front-runner to win the G-O-P (Grand Old Party, nickname for Republican party) nomination.
There's also former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, who says Gramm's departure makes it a two-man race between him and Dole.
Millionaire Steve Forbes has the money to continue his bid, but the big winner as Gramm leaves may be arch-conservative Pat Buchanan, who can claim the right wing support that he and Gramm were battling over.
SOUNDBITE:
"With Gramm's departure, in effect, Pat Buchanan emerges as the candidate of that core conservative wing of the Republican party. The bedrock right now has a candidate."
SUPER CAPTION: Norman Ornstein, Political Analyst
But unlike Gramm, Buchanan supports a policy of America-first trade protectionism, something the senator from Texas says he will continue to fight against.
SOUNDBITE:
"There has always been a recessive gene in the American character that has found protectionism appealing. But we have always been wise enough to reject it and I reject it now and I always will reject it."
SUPER CAPTION: Phil Gramm, Former Republican Presidential Candidate
Phil Gramm may be out of the 1996 race, but the race is now on to pick up his supporters.
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(14 Feb 1996) English/Nat
Phil Gramm, one of the candidates hoping to win the U-S Republican Presidential nomination, has dropped out of the race after poor showings in Louisiana and Iowa.
The departure of the Texas senator leaves the other contenders scrambling to pick up his support.
It was a sombre Phil Gramm who made the announcement everyone had been expecting.
Two years campaigning for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination was over.
He entered the U-S presidential race with momentum, pledging less government and a balanced budget.
But that promise quickly faded, causing the uncharismatic Texas Republican to announce the end of his 1996 bid for the White House after he came a poor fifth in the field in this week's Iowa Caucus.
SOUNDBITE:
"I am today ending my campaign for President of the United States. When the voter speaks, I listen, especially when the voter is saying someone else's name."
SUPER CAPTION: Phil Gramm, Former Republican Presidential Candidate
Gramm's departure comes nearly a year after he announced his candidacy for President at a rally attended by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters.
Phil Gramm is not the first to suffer in the merciless weeding-out process that is the US Primaries.
SOUNDBITE:
"The early contests in presidential politics are, for candidates, like running a gauntlet. Some of them don't make it through and others who do may be bloodied and weakened, but they're still alive and still moving towards the finish line."
SUPER CAPTION: Norman Ornstein, Political Analyst
Ornstein (ORN-steen) says there are still four candidates who are moving towards that finish line, including Senator Bob Dole, a four-times Presidential also-ran, but still the front-runner to win the G-O-P (Grand Old Party, nickname for Republican party) nomination.
There's also former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, who says Gramm's departure makes it a two-man race between him and Dole.
Millionaire Steve Forbes has the money to continue his bid, but the big winner as Gramm leaves may be arch-conservative Pat Buchanan, who can claim the right wing support that he and Gramm were battling over.
SOUNDBITE:
"With Gramm's departure, in effect, Pat Buchanan emerges as the candidate of that core conservative wing of the Republican party. The bedrock right now has a candidate."
SUPER CAPTION: Norman Ornstein, Political Analyst
But unlike Gramm, Buchanan supports a policy of America-first trade protectionism, something the senator from Texas says he will continue to fight against.
SOUNDBITE:
"There has always been a recessive gene in the American character that has found protectionism appealing. But we have always been wise enough to reject it and I reject it now and I always will reject it."
SUPER CAPTION: Phil Gramm, Former Republican Presidential Candidate
Phil Gramm may be out of the 1996 race, but the race is now on to pick up his supporters.
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(28 Nov 1994) Eng/Nat:
A leading US Republican senator has criticised President Clinton over his willingness to fund the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear...
(28 Nov 1994) Eng/Nat:
A leading US Republican senator has criticised President Clinton over his willingness to fund the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear programme.
The Republican party may block a deal which gives Pyongyang four (b) billion U-S dollars in international aid in return for a promise to end its nuclear activities.
The Republicans say they don't trust North Korea but haven't decided yet if they will stop the agreement.
One leading Republican senator - Phil Gramm from Texas - says the U-S cannot afford the North Korean deal.
SOUND BITE:
"Well, first of all Bill Clinton has got to stop running all over the world and sprinkling around money that we don't have. It is unseemly that everywhere the President goes he's going to give them some of our money. In (North) Korea the President never
came to the Congress and said 'Are you willing to put up four b billion dollars to build nuclear reactors in North Korea? Are you willing to give them an allotment of oil every year?'
The President never made that request, yet he made all of these agreements, and they're not going to do anything that is verifiable for the next five years. I don't trust the North Koreans. I think this is a very questionable deal. We're going to hold hearings on it. And if we have to vote to put it in to place, as of today, unless the president can give us a lot of convincing evidence, I'm going to vote no."
(Question: "You don't think it's going to make it through Congress?")
"I don't know. I don't know the degree to which the President is going to have to get it approved. But I can tell you one thing, with a Republican Congress, Bill Clinton is going to have to stop running around the world giving away our money at every stop he makes. We're not going to provide the money, and I think, quite frankly, it creates a bad environment. It makes Bill Clinton and America look like Santa Claus. The last time I looked we were broke and we ought to start acting like it."
SUPER CAPTION: Senator Phil Gramm - Republican-Texas
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(28 Nov 1994) Eng/Nat:
A leading US Republican senator has criticised President Clinton over his willingness to fund the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear programme.
The Republican party may block a deal which gives Pyongyang four (b) billion U-S dollars in international aid in return for a promise to end its nuclear activities.
The Republicans say they don't trust North Korea but haven't decided yet if they will stop the agreement.
One leading Republican senator - Phil Gramm from Texas - says the U-S cannot afford the North Korean deal.
SOUND BITE:
"Well, first of all Bill Clinton has got to stop running all over the world and sprinkling around money that we don't have. It is unseemly that everywhere the President goes he's going to give them some of our money. In (North) Korea the President never
came to the Congress and said 'Are you willing to put up four b billion dollars to build nuclear reactors in North Korea? Are you willing to give them an allotment of oil every year?'
The President never made that request, yet he made all of these agreements, and they're not going to do anything that is verifiable for the next five years. I don't trust the North Koreans. I think this is a very questionable deal. We're going to hold hearings on it. And if we have to vote to put it in to place, as of today, unless the president can give us a lot of convincing evidence, I'm going to vote no."
(Question: "You don't think it's going to make it through Congress?")
"I don't know. I don't know the degree to which the President is going to have to get it approved. But I can tell you one thing, with a Republican Congress, Bill Clinton is going to have to stop running around the world giving away our money at every stop he makes. We're not going to provide the money, and I think, quite frankly, it creates a bad environment. It makes Bill Clinton and America look like Santa Claus. The last time I looked we were broke and we ought to start acting like it."
SUPER CAPTION: Senator Phil Gramm - Republican-Texas
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On March 21, 1995, Republican Senator William "Phil" Gramm spoke to the Press Club about Republican goals in Congress. He talked about lowering the deficit, gra...
On March 21, 1995, Republican Senator William "Phil" Gramm spoke to the Press Club about Republican goals in Congress. He talked about lowering the deficit, granting more power to state governments, and cutting taxes. He said these would all be goals of his if elected to the executive branch.
On March 21, 1995, Republican Senator William "Phil" Gramm spoke to the Press Club about Republican goals in Congress. He talked about lowering the deficit, granting more power to state governments, and cutting taxes. He said these would all be goals of his if elected to the executive branch.
Texas U,S. Senator Phil Gramm came home to Georgia to declare there was no doubt in his mind that President Bill Clinton's unpopular Hillary Care health care reform effort was the driving political story of the previous two years, and one that turned the 1994 national election to the Republican column. "It is not an overstatement to say that we had our first referendum in American history on big government and government lost the referendum,":Gramm said. Although he was born and raised in Georgia, Gramm's entire U.S. House and Senate political career was in representation of Texas. In 2001, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation honored Senator Phil Gramm with its Freedom Award.
AEI Event: "Is Deregulation a Cause of the Financial Crisis?" January 23, 2009 http://www.aei.org/event/1862
During the 2008 campaign season, the Democrats blamed the financial crisis on Republican deregulation, in particular the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). The GLBA repealed the provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prevented affiliations between commercial and investment banks, and the CFMA, among other things, exempted credit default swaps and other derivatives from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Although both acts were backed by the Clinton administration, Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas)--then the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee--was the key congressional sponsor of the legislation. Is it plausible to connect the GLBA and the CFMA with the current financial crisis? Former senator Gramm addressed these and other questions.
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(14 Feb 1996) English/Nat
Phil Gramm, one of the candidates hoping to win the U-S Republican Presidential nomination, has dropped out of the race after poor showings in Louisiana and Iowa.
The departure of the Texas senator leaves the other contenders scrambling to pick up his support.
It was a sombre Phil Gramm who made the announcement everyone had been expecting.
Two years campaigning for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination was over.
He entered the U-S presidential race with momentum, pledging less government and a balanced budget.
But that promise quickly faded, causing the uncharismatic Texas Republican to announce the end of his 1996 bid for the White House after he came a poor fifth in the field in this week's Iowa Caucus.
SOUNDBITE:
"I am today ending my campaign for President of the United States. When the voter speaks, I listen, especially when the voter is saying someone else's name."
SUPER CAPTION: Phil Gramm, Former Republican Presidential Candidate
Gramm's departure comes nearly a year after he announced his candidacy for President at a rally attended by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters.
Phil Gramm is not the first to suffer in the merciless weeding-out process that is the US Primaries.
SOUNDBITE:
"The early contests in presidential politics are, for candidates, like running a gauntlet. Some of them don't make it through and others who do may be bloodied and weakened, but they're still alive and still moving towards the finish line."
SUPER CAPTION: Norman Ornstein, Political Analyst
Ornstein (ORN-steen) says there are still four candidates who are moving towards that finish line, including Senator Bob Dole, a four-times Presidential also-ran, but still the front-runner to win the G-O-P (Grand Old Party, nickname for Republican party) nomination.
There's also former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, who says Gramm's departure makes it a two-man race between him and Dole.
Millionaire Steve Forbes has the money to continue his bid, but the big winner as Gramm leaves may be arch-conservative Pat Buchanan, who can claim the right wing support that he and Gramm were battling over.
SOUNDBITE:
"With Gramm's departure, in effect, Pat Buchanan emerges as the candidate of that core conservative wing of the Republican party. The bedrock right now has a candidate."
SUPER CAPTION: Norman Ornstein, Political Analyst
But unlike Gramm, Buchanan supports a policy of America-first trade protectionism, something the senator from Texas says he will continue to fight against.
SOUNDBITE:
"There has always been a recessive gene in the American character that has found protectionism appealing. But we have always been wise enough to reject it and I reject it now and I always will reject it."
SUPER CAPTION: Phil Gramm, Former Republican Presidential Candidate
Phil Gramm may be out of the 1996 race, but the race is now on to pick up his supporters.
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(28 Nov 1994) Eng/Nat:
A leading US Republican senator has criticised President Clinton over his willingness to fund the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear programme.
The Republican party may block a deal which gives Pyongyang four (b) billion U-S dollars in international aid in return for a promise to end its nuclear activities.
The Republicans say they don't trust North Korea but haven't decided yet if they will stop the agreement.
One leading Republican senator - Phil Gramm from Texas - says the U-S cannot afford the North Korean deal.
SOUND BITE:
"Well, first of all Bill Clinton has got to stop running all over the world and sprinkling around money that we don't have. It is unseemly that everywhere the President goes he's going to give them some of our money. In (North) Korea the President never
came to the Congress and said 'Are you willing to put up four b billion dollars to build nuclear reactors in North Korea? Are you willing to give them an allotment of oil every year?'
The President never made that request, yet he made all of these agreements, and they're not going to do anything that is verifiable for the next five years. I don't trust the North Koreans. I think this is a very questionable deal. We're going to hold hearings on it. And if we have to vote to put it in to place, as of today, unless the president can give us a lot of convincing evidence, I'm going to vote no."
(Question: "You don't think it's going to make it through Congress?")
"I don't know. I don't know the degree to which the President is going to have to get it approved. But I can tell you one thing, with a Republican Congress, Bill Clinton is going to have to stop running around the world giving away our money at every stop he makes. We're not going to provide the money, and I think, quite frankly, it creates a bad environment. It makes Bill Clinton and America look like Santa Claus. The last time I looked we were broke and we ought to start acting like it."
SUPER CAPTION: Senator Phil Gramm - Republican-Texas
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On March 21, 1995, Republican Senator William "Phil" Gramm spoke to the Press Club about Republican goals in Congress. He talked about lowering the deficit, granting more power to state governments, and cutting taxes. He said these would all be goals of his if elected to the executive branch.
William Philip "Phil" Gramm (born July 8, 1942) is an American economist and politician, who has served as a DemocraticCongressman (1979–1983), a RepublicanCongressman (1983–1985) and a Republican Senator (1985–2002) from Texas. He later became a lobbyist for UBS and founded a public policy and lobbying firm, Gramm Partners. He was a senior economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign from the summer of 2007 until July 18, 2008.
Early life and university career
Gramm was born on July 8, 1942 in Fort Benning, Georgia, and grew up in nearby Columbus.
Soon after his birth, Gramm's father Kenneth suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed. He died when Gramm was 14. Gramm's mother, Florence (née Scoggins), worked double shifts as a nurse to supplement the veteransdisability pension.
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Mitch McConnell, who served 18 years as GOP leader of the Senate, said in a recent Washington interview that Phil Gramm and Lamar Alexander were his two favorite senators to serve with during his 40-plus years in Congress. He called Gramm "brilliant."
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WASHINGTON — IncomingWhite House budget director Russ Vought has spent much of his career learning the detailed, often convoluted mechanisms that make up the Office of Management and Budget... Phil Gramm ... Budget request ... ‘Every possible tool’ ... Source .
Editor’s note. Items or corrections to be published in the Palm Beach Daily News Speakers Calendar must be submitted by email. Please list each item separately in the body of the email; do not use attachments ... Dec. 2 ... Robert L ... Contact ... Phil Gramm, R-Texas.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he has selected Russell Vought to again lead the White House budget office, returning the hard-charging conservative to a critical position in the federal government ... government ... Phil Gramm and Rep ... .
Russ Vought, the hard-driving budget director from President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, will be nominated for a second stint in the job ... Laying the groundwork ... Partisan past ... Then-Colorado GOP Sen ... Phil Gramm, R-Texas. ....
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Pander Wars. By Dr ...Black ... My economics tutor at the University of Georgia was a graduate student, Phil Gramm. Yes, that Phil Gramm who told me when we were both in Washington, that as a politician sometimes economics has to yield to political reality.
The Knoxville Focus
22 Oct 2024
The Knoxville Focus
22 Oct 2024