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Right now, you haven't got the votes out there to pass the Lord's Prayer." So said Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin last week, ruefully contemplating the spectacle of a sadly divided House of Representatives trying to come up with some kind of budget compromise. In a week of legislative chaos, the House debated seven different budget plans for fiscal 1983 and voted every last one of them down; none came within even 24 votes of passage...
Other Democrats in the forefront of those urging Reagan to accept SALT II are former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senators Sam Nunn of Georgia and John Glenn of Ohio and Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin. To that chorus last week came an influential voice from the Republican side, Henry Kissinger. In a speech at The Hague, Vance and Muskie's predecessor as Secretary of State said of SALT II: "It seems to me a reasonable way to end the current impasse, establish a baseline for later reductions and end the agitation for quick fixes." Kissinger, who helped...
...registrants are now subject to a five-year jail term and a $10.000 fine, but Rep Les Aspin (D-Wis.) said last week that he will introduce legislation to cut the penalty...
...criticism comes from Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisc.), who released military travel manifests describing the trips and charged that the government-paid flights for Weinberger and members of his family cost the Pentagon more than $20,000 "during the very period he is insisting the Pentagon budget is uncuttable...
Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin is out of his mind to criticize Tip O'Neill for lacking zeal hi fighting the Republicans on the budget. Even we card-carrying liberals know that taxes are too high and waste too great to avoid budget cuts...