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...agency's critics, sputtering anew as various versions of the Administration's proposal were leaked, revised and leaked again, received some strong bipartisan support last week. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee recommended that the Administration abandon its plan to permit the CIA to infiltrate and influence domestic groups, a key part of the proposed Executive Order. In a cryptic defense of the plan, an Administration official says, "Our aim is to allow flexibility...
...commodities had from 1910 to 1914. But the dairy lobby, which, according to Common Cause, a consumer lobby, dispensed more than $1 million in contributions in the past two elections to the Congressmen who voted its way, outmaneuvered Administration supporters in the House. Vermont Republican James Jeffords countered a bipartisan proposal to pare dairy supports to the Senate levels by offering an amendment that would increase subsidies by $2.5 billion over four years. As battle lines were being drawn, Iowa Democrat Berkley Bedell introduced a "compromise" proposal, backed by the dairy industry, that would raise supports by only $400 million...
...Services Secretary Richard Schweiker and OMB Director David Stockman had formulated and that the Senate had rejected last May, and proposed a few palliatives to shore up the system for the time being. Reagan also asked that any major changes in Social Security be studied by a 15-member bipartisan task force - five members each from the Senate and House, plus five presidential appointees. The task force would not be expected to report any findings until January 1983. That, handily, is well after the 1982 congressional elections...
...Governors were concerned that a gamble they made last February was now backfiring. In a bipartisan resolution, they had agreed to support the Reagan Administration's economic program on one major condition: that the Federal Government give them general-purpose block grants rather than money ear marked by Congress for specific uses. These block grants were to be the cornerstone of Reagan's "quiet federalist revolution," in which power would gradually be transferred from overblown federal agencies to state and local authorities. Given greater leeway and less red tape in using federal funds, the Governors were confident that...
...come from the Social Security fund, to help the "truly needy" whose benefits were cut. But looming even larger is the fact that the financial base of the fund seems headed for bankruptcy in a year if nothing more is done. Reagan will have to press for a bipartisan solution to minimize-or at least equally distribute-the political fallout from any changes...