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Show AG o The Salt Lake Tribune NATION No More EasySailing for Bush’s Tax Cut Boy Gets Life in Prison | For Body-Slam Death Senior Democrat says Senate will determine <a15.. Prosecutor says mandatory sentence is too harsh taea bill’s size, scope, fate TE ASSOCIATEDPRESS BY CURT ANDERSON FORT LAUDERDALE, Fila. — [A taigehn Saige tis Was Eesti RGGDESA Tia temas ‘THEASSOCIATED PRESS body-slamming pro wrestlers WASHINGTON — President whenhekilled a little girl at age Bush’s 12 was sentenced tolife in prison tax-cut plan, after hurtling through the House, is about to come to a screeching halt in the Senate, where Democrats and Republicans sayit will take time and without parole Friday after a judge refused to reduce hisfirst- degree murderconviction. Tears rolled. down Lionel Tate's cheeks as the boy, now 14, was led away in handcuffs and leg under a tough-on-crime Florida law enacted in the mid-1990s. Tate becomes one of the defendants in the boy’s lawyer and his mother had repeatedly rejected a plea bar- gain that would have meant only three years in a juvenile prison. In imposing sentence, Judge Joel Lazarus called the slaying of 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick “cold, callous and indescribablycruel.” Lionel Tate, 14, is comforted Friday after being sentenced. Judge called his guilt ‘obvious.’ argued that the 170-poundboy did not mean to kill the 48-poundgirl. OnFriday, the judge rejecteda defense request to throw out the of beating Tiffany to death at his home. indisputable.” Tiffany suffered a starts working in earnest onits version of Bush's 10-year, $1.6 trillion tax-cut package. By thattime, the House probably will have fractured skull, a lacerated liver and more than 30 other injuries on July 28, 1999. During the trial, the defense conviction or reduce it, saying, “The evidence of Lionel Tate’s guilt is clear, obvious and Tate was found guilty Jan. 25 income compromise to produce a final sentence, which was mandatory youngest across-the-board agreement. “The size and scope and fate of this bill will be determined in the Senate,” said Sen. Max Baucusof Montana, senior Democrat on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee. The panel's chairman, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-lowa, said it will be May before the committee shackles to begin serving the United States ever to be sentenced to spendtherestofhis life behindbars. The prosecutor himself suggested the sentence was too harsh, but he also noted that the passed several other items ing list for organ transplants has surpassed75,000 for the first time, a benchmark that officials marked with a plea for more donations. The list has. been steadily growing for years as techniques improved, more hospitals began programs and more doctors recommendedtransplants for their patients. At the end of1990, 20,481 people were on the waiting list. Last weekend, the list hit 75,069, the United Network for Organ Sharing said Friday. said. “The most sacred goal we much work ahead. There are 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans in the Senate, giving Democrats transplantation, it has become routine therapy for many diseases. We have the know-howto save tens of thousandsoflives. What wedon’t have is enough donated Health and HumanServices vy organ Moving his tax-cut campaign Friday to South Dakota and Louisiana — two other states represented by Democratic senators — Bush repeated his assertion that there will be enough budget surplus moneyto cut taxes and meet other national priorities. “T'm here to make my case — if operations. The number of deaths the American people are overcharged, they deserve a refund. They deserve some money back,” on the waiting list has tripled, from 1,958 in 1990 to 6,125 in 1999. SPRING HiME & GARDEN FESTIVAL the president said in Sioux Falls, S.D. Republicans were exultant at THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS: SIOUX FALLS,S.D. —Smiles parts of the president’s tax plan. papered over partisan disputes Friday as President Bush and Candidatesfor the next measure in the pipeline include those address- Senate Democrats dug in for battle over the tax cuts that ing the “marriage penalty” paid by millions of two-income couples, doubling the $500 child tax credit, repealing the estate tax and expanding tax breaks for charitable contributions. “Our message to the American people is: Help is on the way,” said House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas. “We're going to do a lot more.” The income tax legislation would gradually reduce and condense the current five graduated incometax rates of 15 percent, 28 percent, 31 percent, 36 percent and 39.6 percent. By 2006, rates would be pegged at 10 percent, 15 percent, 25 percentand 33 percent. To provide relief immediately, the measure also would create an interim 12 percent bracket, retroactive to Jan. 1 of this year and continuing in 2002, that would be applied to the first $12,000 of breezed ‘through the House. “There is a need to makethis happen quickly,” Bushsaid. A day after the House ap- proved his plan to cut income tax rates across the board, Bush traveled from South Dakota to Louisianato build public pressure on those states’ four Democratic U.S. senators to support the bill that is now in their hands, Bipartisan cooperation “is alive and well,” Bushinsisted to reportersas he, Senate Minority taxable income for couples and $6,000 of taxable incomefor individuals. That bracket would drop to 11 percent in 2003 and thento the permanent 10 percentlevel in 2006. Taxpayers could see an estimated maximumtax cut this year. Leader Tom Daschle and Sen. Tim Johnson, South Dakota's senators, made a quick walkthroughof a medical lab in support of increased funds to community health centers. Both Daschle and Johnson, who said nothing in his brief joint appearance with thepresident, have been sharply critica} of Bush’s tax plan as “risky” andtilted toward the wealthy. Looking ahead to Senate negotiations that are still weeks away and promise to grind slowly, Bush voiced impatience. Hehassaid he wantshis tax-cut package — lowered income-tax rates, expanded child credits, a pared marriage penalty and phased-outestate tax — enacted by July 4. of $360 for a couple and$180 for an individual, Republicans said. The Bush administration estimates that whenthe entire tax plan is fully in place, 6 million families would no longer pay federal in- cometaxes. NCSI SAVE $1.00 AKE TRIBUNE Plus: FREE’ Valid on one adult admission only. Limit one coupon per adult $6 admission lot valid with any otheroffer. [= _ Hours | Thursday Friday Saturday. Sunday. FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL presenreo ny plan. In the 1990s, the numberof patients waiting grew five times as fast as the numberof transplant main therefor sometime. of ence Thursday in Fargo, N.D., a state represented by two Democratic senators who oppose his Secretary Tommy Thompson has said he will developa plan to help boost donations by. this spring. And the Housepassed legislation this week to encourage living and cadaveric organ donation. “With success the outcome. “One House down, and now the Senate to go,” Bush told an audi- organs to makeit possible.” Most people who are on the waitinglist todayarelikely to re- the ‘much greater clout in determining Bush Preparesfor Battle in the Senate weeks to send the Senate other have to accomplish is as big a marginalrate cut as possible.” B-1 the quick House victory, which came only 48 days into Bush’s term, and promised in the coming * can for the president,” Grassley Even ashebasked in the 230-198 Housevotein favor of the income ‘Ina we've becomea victimofour ownsuccess,” network President Patricia Adams said. IH Matheson’s tax voles “Mygoalis to get as much as we Transplant Waiting List Tops 75,000 ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 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