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That prediction seemed borne out later in the week when leaders of the 100th Congress called at the White House to discuss domestic policy. Reagan opened by pledging to veto as a "budget buster" a $20 billion clean-water bill that passed both houses of Congress by overwhelming margins. House Speaker Jim Wright and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd told the President they thought they had the votes to override; on Friday, Reagan vetoed the bill anyway. Byrd pressed Reagan to call a kind of summit meeting with congressional leaders to discuss strategies for reducing the budget deficit. "I didn...
Congress has been compared to an aviary whose inhabitants tend to band together in tiny groups that flap around in circles. But every now and then all the birds wing in tight formation to the same destination. It happened last year on tax reform and drug legislation. As the 100th Congress gets to work, the flock is forming early. This time its goal is to pass a trade bill, one that, for a change, will not be shot down by President Reagan's veto...
...those public servants -- namely, Congressmen -- are in a position to vote raises for themselves. Or cuts. In the Depression year of 1932, a politically prudent concern for seemliness prompted Congress to slash its salaries 10%. That is not likely to happen in 1987. But as members of the 100th Congress weigh the very real financial needs of officials in all branches of Government, including themselves, they are painfully aware of how public sentiment is running. During a call-in poll last month, ABC television recorded 167,600 votes opposing proposed pay hikes for top Government officials, vs. only...
...100th Congress begins a new year of work, it immediately faces an economic dilemma that is agonizingly old: what to do about the monstrous and dangerous U.S. deficit. Despite all efforts in years past to control it, the gap between federal spending and revenues grew to a record $221 billion in fiscal 1986. This week, as President Reagan sends Congress his 1988 budget, the annual battle over the deficit gets under way. Behind the barrage of statistics and beyond the parade of partisan interest groups fighting for bigger shares of the federal pie, the issue at stake is, quite simply...
...would be challenging for an untroubled Administration; it could prove insuperable for one embroiled in an Iran arms-contra funds scandal. For one thing, when the 100th Congress convenes this week, the Senate as well as the House will be controlled by opposition Democrats intent on pursuing their own agenda. But that difficulty pales before another: Reagan must try to reassert his leadership at a time when his own credibility and competence, and that of his staff, are being questioned as never before. The special investigating committees of the Senate and House begin probing anew into Iranscam this month; whatever...