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...making or just one more step in the annual dance between the Democrats and the White House? Almost every year Washington's divided Government hints at a grand compromise, then scrambles away as both sides point fingers and duck for cover. Last April the flirtation culminated in a bipartisan Rose Garden budget ceremony. The cooperation ended when Bush proposed a capital-gains...
Some integrity is badly needed right now. Until 1983, Social Security was run on a pay-as-you-go basis, with payroll taxes bringing in roughly the same amount that was disbursed as benefits. But that year a bipartisan commission -- on which Moynihan played a key role -- designed a scheme to build a surplus that could swell to $4 trillion by 2010. The money would come from a series of increases in Social Security contributions, which began to phase in six years ago, and from taxing the benefits of higher-income retirees...
...will do more. Skirmishes will multiply as the few efforts at bipartisan cooperation of the recent past recede from Washington's memory. For one thing, the Democrats are plainly frustrated. In a fit of complaisance early last year, the White House and Democrats agreed to set aside differences on policy toward Nicaragua, collaborated on a plan to bail out the savings and loan industry and settled on the outlines of the federal budget. But the budget accord unraveled, largely over Bush's insistence on a capital-gains tax cut that would mainly benefit taxpayers earning $200,000 or more...
Frustrated by the President's easygoing popularity, congressional Democrats are abandoning last year's spirit of bipartisan cooperation. -- On abortion, the G.O.P. plans to finesse. -- Mayor Marion Barry retreats to a Florida clinic, while Washington wonders who will clean up the mess...
...week Sullivan went further by announcing the creation of a blue-ribbon commission to get the FDA back on course. "The President and I are committed to strengthening the FDA," Sullivan declared. In the Senate, meantime, Massachusetts liberal Edward Kennedy has joined with Utah conservative Orrin Hatch in a bipartisan effort to beef up the FDA's anemic annual budget by setting a floor level of $500 million, vs. the current total of $492 million. Their proposal would also provide the FDA with a single facility -- currently, it is spread across 22 buildings in Washington, from converted chicken coops...