Pete Domenici, New Mexico's Deficit-Hawk Senator, Dies at 85
- The six-term Republican senator opposed supply-side economics
- He was budget committee chairman under President Ronald Reagan
Pete Domenici
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Pete Domenici, a six-term Republican U.S. senator from New Mexico who opposed the supply-side economic policies of President Ronald Reagan out of concern for widening budget deficits, has died. He was 85.
He died Wednesday at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, according to the Associated Press, citing his son, Pete Domenici Jr. The former senator had undergone abdominal surgery in recent weeks.