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...catch-all $460 billion "continuing resolution" to fund the Government for a whole year. So Congress gave itself another extension until Tuesday of this week, when the legislators will have to return to deal with the measure. Barring a presidential veto, which would force still another session, the 98th Congress will then pass into history, leaving a two-year record that might charitably be called undistinguished...
...closing chaos was a fitting fade-out for the 98th Congress. Its finest hour was its first; almost as soon as it convened in early 1983, it passed a bipartisan pack age of tax and benefit changes urgently needed to save the Social Security system from bankruptcy. But from there on, bickering between the Republican White House and Senate and the Democratic House blocked most positive accomplishments, an unhappy augury of what might be expected in the next two years if voters maintain that same power alignment...
...tongue-lashing was a better indication of what the President can expect from Congress this year than was the applause he got later that evening. Like Reagan's speech, the second session of the 98th Congress is likely to be remembered more for rhetoric than substance. The lawmakers are slated to convene for only 29 weeks, and most Congressmen will spend more time on the campaign trail than at the Capitol. On the House and Senate floors, political posturing will take precedence over legislating...
Last Thursday's announcement, made in Andropov's name on the 98th day since his disappearance from public view on Aug. 18, essentially formalized earlier threats. The Soviets were breaking off, at least for a while, the tenuous two-year dialogue between the superpowers aimed at limiting the spread of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. The actual walkout from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks had occurred the previous day at a 25-minute meeting in Geneva between Chief Soviet Arms Negotiator Yuli Kvitsinsky and his U.S. counterpart, Paul Nitze. Kvitsinsky had put the mildest face possible...
...situation was distressingly familiar. The 98th Congress had dithered for months over its most basic responsibility: funding the vast operations of the Federal Government. Now it was in a frantic haste to adjourn. In a sudden spasm of activity, it fell all too short of meeting its self-imposed spending and revenue limits. Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, pronounced a scathing verdict on the legislators' performance. "As we leave Washington," he predicted, "word of our impotence will precede us. We have put special interests on notice that we can be pushed around...