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GOP Puts Its Mark on Congress and Deficit
By Janet Hook
Times Staff Writer
November 30, 2003
WASHINGTON � A full year of Republican dominance of government has left a legacy rich in conservative triumphs: cutting taxes, building a muscular defense, restricting abortion.
But the year has also brought an extraordinary expansion of government power and spending that showed Republicans were willing to deep-six their party's traditional commitment to fiscal conservatism and limited government.
The Republican-controlled Congress has passed the third tax cut in as many years, an enormous Pentagon budget, a costly experiment in nation-building in Iraq and a vast expansion of Medicare � all at the request of President Bush. Their actions have left the federal budget swimming in the largest deficits in history.
As one lawmaker heard from a Republican friend, "Democrats are the party of 'tax and spend'; Republicans are the party of 'don't tax � and spend.' " That is the ironic product of the first full year since 1954 that Republicans have controlled the White House and Congress.
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