Word: 98th
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Next week the 98th Congress, which will be more liberal and Democratic than the one that staggered offstage last week, will convene. With 84 new members, it will have to get organized all over again. Some time in January, Reagan will send it his budget plan for fiscal 1984, with projections of another huge deficit, this one exceeding $150 billion. The President will be confronted with growing skepticism about his economic nostrums. Members are not likely to take gracefully such naive proposals for confronting unemployment as the one Reagan tossed out at a press conference last week: that there would...
...Government. (One includes a proposed pay raise for Congressmen that is unlikely to survive.) The House has passed eight and may approve four more before Christmas. The Senate has completed only three and is likely to pass only four more. Thus, despite all the fuss and expense, the 98th Congress may have to go through much of the same legislative maze all over again in January. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington
...Reagan's "user's fee" nor O'Neill's foredoomed big-spending plan is likely to do much, however, to reduce the current 10.4% jobless rate. Congressional rumblings to "do something" about unemployment will surely grow, very possibly to a roar, when the more Democratic 98th Congress convenes in January. Last week's moves on the issue may mean that the White House has seen the political future and begun to make its plans accordingly...
...President's dealings with the 98th Congress could take one of three paths: forging a coalition with conservative Democrats, negotiating a true bipartisan consensus, or settling for a standoff. The first would by pass the congressional leader ship by working with Boll Weevil Democratic defectors, much as Reagan did to pass the budget and tax cuts in the past. White House Chief of Staff James Baker claims that despite last week's defeats, the President still has a pool of 245 sympathetic Congress men to draw upon to reach a 218-vote majority...
Leaders of the movement now aren't pushing for instant equality of numbers of representatives. Despite the surge in political activity, there probably won't be many more women in the 98th Congress than the 19 representatives and two senators in the sitting 97th. That's because very few politicians start at the national level and the qualified female candidates are still seeking state and local posts. So in the past eight years, the number of women in state legislatures has tripled, from 4 percent to 12 percent. In time, that increase should ripple thought higher circles of power...