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...Immigration Reform and Control Act, co-authored by Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Romano Mazzoli (D-Ky.) is probably the most fair-minded immigration bill in American history. It won bipartisan support and the editorial acclaim of most major daily newspapers. The Senate approved the bill in August, setting up a vote in the House of Representatives this fall...
...When it came to the test, a bipartisan majority bit the bullet," said an exultant Ronald Reagan a few minutes after the votes were counted. Continuing his remarkable streak of legislative victories, the President had deftly corralled enough Congressmen of both parties into approving a contradictory but much needed correction to his economic policies. In retrospect, the 226-to-207 victory was hardly surprising: the President has made such miracles seem commonplace. What was out of the ordinary was the nature of the triumph. Reagan, who had come to Washington preaching a gos pel of tax cuts, had wrested from...
...foreseen only three months ago. That competition for limited available capital is likely to keep interest rates high. The latest economic indicators, which for two straight months had pointed toward a possible recovery, turned ominously flat. Worse yet, the painfully constructed underpinnings of Ronald Reagan's fragile 1983 bipartisan budget deal were in danger of falling to the wrecker's ball. The bickering between congressional Democrats and Republicans and between leaders of both parties and the President threatened to defeat a much needed tax increase and permit passage of budget-breaking bills. If those two events occurred...
...week before election day, for instance, was apparently Reagan's own, against his aides' advice. White reports that the Republican nominee decided he had to take on Carter in mid-October, after the two standard-bearers appeared at an Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York. At that bipartisan function, Reagan, whose address was typically graceful, found himself astonished at Carter's taut, partisan remarks...
Although about one-third of the big-city mayors are Republicans, criticism of the Reagan budget cuts as they affect cities was unusually bipartisan. The mayors gave a standing ovation to Rohatyn. He urged the Administration to revive the New Deal's old Reconstruction Finance Corporation to provide longterm, low-interest federal loans so that cities, which find interest rates too high to float municipal bonds, can rebuild bridges, sewers, firehouses, schools and deteriorating mass-transit systems. Such a revolving fund, he said, should "selfdestruct in ten years" as revitalized cities repay the loans. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder...