Word: bipartisanism
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...White House lunch followed a joint session of Congress that was marked by a rare bipartisan cheer. Attending were such ancient adversaries as Florida Representative Claude Pepper, 81, once a red hot New Dealer, and New York's venerable Hamilton Fish, 93, who was stigmatized and immortalized in F.D.R.'s 1940 campaign refrain lambasting three conservative Republican Congressmen, "[Joseph] Martin, [Bruce] Barton and Fish." Among the speakers: Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, who was first elected as a Congressman in 1932; and F.D.R. himself, heard in recordings. Pepper drew guffaws by recounting...
...part, Reagan won these victories through shrewd strategy. On the reconciliation bill, for example, the President's calls for bipartisan cooperation induced the Democrats, who control the House, to draft compromises giving Reagan most of what he wanted. He then seized on these concessions to seek still more, artfully cajoling conservative House Democrats to defy their baffled leaders and vote his way. But mostly the President won by exercising raw electoral power. His appeals to the public on TV, and pressure from Reagan supporters in their home districts, convinced many legislators that they could vote against the President only...
...bipartisan target for congressional cuts next year will undoubtedly be the military, despite Reagan's determination to keep the Pentagon budget out of harm's way. As part of the final rush to adjournment last week, Congress, with almost no deliberation, passed a 1982 defense bill totaling $199.7 billion, which is $1.2 billion less than Reagan requested but $28.3 billion more than in last year's budget. Even the bill's congressional sponsors noted that it was bloated with the type of waste the White House has vowed to fight. Baker said that...
Schweiker backed into a buzz saw when he and Stockman jointly proposed a plan to reform Social Security by reducing benefits. Regardless of the degree to which the plan had merit, and elements of it had a lot, it was met with bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill. Reagan had to disclaim it. For a man who served two terms in the Senate, Schweiker showed himself surprisingly inept in dealing with Congress. He earns a middling C, but only because he does not deserve blame for all of what has happened in his realm...
...credentials are impeccable, his party loyalties unassailable. A lifelong Republican, Arthur S. Flemming, 76, was appointed Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1958 by Dwight Eisenhower. In 1974 Richard Nixon named him chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan advisory committee whose purpose is to monitor enforcement of civil rights laws. Flemming turned out to be an especially unflinching warrior in the struggle for civil rights. In recent months, after having concluded that Reagan and company lacked commitment to the cause, he began attacking the Administration. Last week he found himself out of a job. Nominated...