Word: bipartisanism
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...potential ramifications of the tax bill, last week's battle was essentially a struggle for power between the White House and the leadership of the House, and politics more than principle was involved. In negotiations last June to produce a bipartisan bill, the Democrats had agreed to accept many of the basics of Reagan's plan, including a massive, multiyear tax cut and accelerated depreciation for businesses. "We have won the tax debate," said White House Chief of Staff James Baker after hearing of the concessions made by Rostenkowski's committee. Nonetheless, the Administration decided to hang...
...Reagan's selection of William J. Casey, his former campaign manager, to head the CIA came under increasingly serious assault from Republicans on Capitol Hill. After sounding out the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the agency, Assistant Majority Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska said that a bipartisan committee majority wants Casey to quit...
...winding down of the debilitating U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Increases in military spending fell below the rate of inflation from 1969 through '77, and nosed upward in real terms only slightly thereafter. This erosion of the nation's ability to defend itself was, in a way, a bipartisan policy that began with Richard Nixon, who boasted that he was the first President in 20 years to devote a greater share of the national budget to social programs than to defense. Gerald Ford proposed some modest increases in real defense spending, but they were trimmed back by the overwhelmingly Democratic...
Despite the assessment of his own aides that he did not yet have bipartisan support for this budget fight, Reagan was not worried. Losing this second budget battle, he felt, was preferable to endorsing a bill that might lead to unacceptable deficits in 1982 and 1983 and thus undermine his arguments for future tax cuts...
...Among the sponsors of the substitute are Democrat Phil Gramm of Texas and Republican Delbert Latta of Ohio, who proposed the Reagan-backed bipartisan budget resolution that was approved by the House last month...