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...plan, which was put together by Democrat Les Aspin of Wisconsin, aims a carrot and stick at Moscow: money for the missiles will be held in escrow until next April. If the Soviets agree to resume talks on strategic arms limitations, the MX program will remain on hold. If not, the money will be appropriated. The $2.7 billion that the House Armed Services Committee had requested for 30 missiles was cut to $1.8 billion...
Actually, the White House legislative strategy group had already concluded that a compromise would be necessary and had worked behind the scenes with Aspin. After the narrow (218 to 212) defeat of an amendment that would have killed MX funding entirely, the White House endorsed the Aspin compromise just minutes before the final roll call...
...unexpurgated first draft of the report, however, promptly leaked. It praised some members of Congress for placing the national interest above their home-district concerns (Democratic Representatives Les Aspin of Wisconsin and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado and Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts). It also noted candidly that some of the best-known legislators had dipped into pork-barrel politics. Among them: Democratic Presidential Candidate Ernest Hollings and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, both of South Carolina (for fighting to keep Fort Jackson, near Columbia, open); Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas (for preventing the closing of a Housing and Urban...
...group of House Democrats led by Aspin, Albert Gore of Tennessee and Norman Dicks of Washington was urging that the U.S. shift away from large, MIRVed missiles and instead deploy mobile ones with single warheads, like the proposed Midgetman. This had been recommended by Reagan's bipartisan panel on nuclear strategy chaired by Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, which had nevertheless favored emplacing a limited number of MX missiles while the Midgetman was being developed...
...Senator Henry Jackson, Nunn and Cohen assessed the objectives of arms-control activists in both houses of Congress. Their House colleagues had been emphasizing different approaches, and the Administration had played both sides off against each other. Over the next two weeks, Nunn, Cohen and Percy joined forces with Aspin (who had plugged double build-down in a letter to Scowcroft in August), Dicks and Gore in the House, forming what became known as "the Gang of Six." The group agreed on a set of principles, including a commitment to less vulnerable missiles and to some formula for reducing total...