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...State of the Union speech was a self-confident stay-the-course message typified by this assertion to Congress: "I will not ask you to try to balance the budget on the backs of the American taxpayer." But last week he was stressing moderation and an appeal for bipartisan cooperation. To the Republican contributors at the Percy dinner, Reagan held up as a model the accord worked out among the White House, the National Commission on Social Security Reform and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, even though it includes huge tax increases. "Yes, it involves necessary compromise," said Reagan...
When Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduces a bill entitled S.1 this week, he will be the first of a phalanx of blockers trying to mow down obstacles to congressional approval of a $168 billion Social Security compromise package. With the bipartisan blessings of President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the National Commission on Social Security Reform hammered together the agreement hours short of its Jan. 15 deadline. The commission's success, after months of deadlock, may have saved the entire Social Security issue from becoming fatally ensnared...
...bipartisan commission hammers out compromise measures...
...bipartisan National Commission on Social Security Reform, the race to meet its Jan. 15 deadline for agreement on proposals to save the ailing Social Security system was a photo finish. "You may be collecting your Social Security before we finish this commission, but I assure you it will be there when the time comes," quipped Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York as he entered Blair House, the capital's official guest residence for visiting statesmen, where the eleventh-hour negotiations took place. Administration officials, led by White House Chief of Staff James Baker, conferred...
...they keep apart their personal and political lives. "You really have to have that basis." Besides, she adds, "there may be something at the White House being discussed that's not ready to be discussed on Capitol Hill." It works both ways. When the "Gang of 17," a bipartisan group of lawmakers and senior White House aides, was working behind closed doors last year on budget proposals for the President, Senator Dole told his wife: "Elizabeth, I'm not going to be able to talk to you about what we're doing...