don't like him , my impression is that he is a lib on social issues . I'll have to check his 'on the issues' but liberal is my impression of him .
He is centrist, and you are far reactionary right, a small group in America.
He was the budget hawk of the 80's and 90's. No way the crazies will vote for a guy who is an actual budget hawk. They hated Coburn too. God forbid that govt actually function
During his congressional career, Kasich was considered a
fiscal conservative, taking aim at programs supported by Republicans and
Democrats. Kasich worked with Rep.
Ron Dellums to cut spending on the
B-2 Bomber, and with
Ralph Nader in seeking to reduce corporate tax loopholes.
[29][30]
Kasich participated extensively in the passage of the
Goldwater–Nichols Act of 1986, which reorganized the
U.S. Department of Defense.
[31]
In 1993, he became the
ranking Republican member of the
House Budget Committee. In that position, Kasich and other House Budget Committee Republicans proposed an alternative to President
Bill Clinton's deficit reduction bill, the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.
[32] That proposal included funds to implement Republican proposals for health care, welfare, and crime control legislation and for a
child tax credit.
[32] The Penny-Kasich Plan, named after its lead sponsors Kasich and
Tim Penny and supported by Republicans and conservative Democrats, proposed $90 billion of spending cuts over five years, almost three times as much in cuts as the $37 billion in cuts backed by the Clinton administration and Democratic congressional leaders.
[33] About one-third ($27 billion) of the cuts in the Penny-Kasich cuts would come from
means testing Medicare, specifically by reducing Medicare payments to seniors who earned $75,000 or more in
adjusted gross income.
[34][35] This angered the
AARP, which lobbied against the legislation.
[34] Another $26 billion of the Penny-Kasich plan's cuts would have come from the U.S. Department of Defense and foreign aid, which led Secretary of Defense
Les Aspin to say that the plan would destroy military morale.
[34] Another $27 billion in savings would have come from federal layoffs.
[34] The proposal was narrowly defeated in the House in a 219-213 vote.
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As ranking member of the Budget Committee, Kasich proposed his own health care reform plan as an rival to the
Clinton health care plan of 1993 championed by
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
[36] As
Time magazine wrote, "The Kasich plan would have covered all Americans by 2005, using a form of an
individual mandate that would have required employees to purchase insurance through their employers. (The mandate was an idea initially supported by conservative groups like the
Heritage Foundation.)"
[36]
In 1995, when Republicans gained the majority in the
United States Congress following the
1994 election, Kasich became chairman of the House Budget Committee. In 1996, he introduced the
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in the House, which reformed the nation's welfare system. According to President Clinton, who signed the legislation, "It requires work of welfare recipients, limits the time they can stay on welfare and provides child care and health care to help them make the move from welfare to work."
[37]
In 1997, Kasich rose to national prominence after becoming "the chief architect of a deal that balanced the federal budget for the first time since 1969"—the
Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
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