Word: bipartisanism
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...before Reagan made his televised threat. Democrats were having second thoughts about trying to get by with unrealistic cuts that would later be reversed. Congressman Leon Panetta of California, a member of the Budget Committee, telephoned Perkins in Kentucky to warn that the Republicans, as they had with the bipartisan budget resolution, might be able to sway enough conservative Democrats to pass their own budget plan. Democrats decided to reverse some of their cuts. Perkins called his committee Democrats into caucus and chose to restore $1.75 billion for such programs as school impact aid, student loans and Head Start preschool...
...personal income taxes, Regan has emerged from the obscurity of his first days in office-and from the shadow of highly visible Budget Director David Stockman-as a tough and unyielding negotiator. The package he presented last week to the Senate and House tax-writing committees was stamped bipartisan, thanks to the endorsement of Kent Hance, conservative Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee. But its contents were almost 100% Reagan...
...final 10% taking effect July 1, 1983. Moreover, as in the April battle that ended with Congress approving sweeping cuts in federal spending on domestic social programs, Reagan had found a conservative Democrat-in this case, Texas Congressman Kent Hance-to co-sponsor his bill, thus giving it a bipartisan coloration...
Negotiations toward a bipartisan tax cut go astray...
...Republican National Committee, featuring the Oval Office's best salesman. Reagan was ready to fight. At a Cabinet meeting, Regan told him: "If this thing doesn't work out with Rostenkowski, you may have to go to work on Congress like you did on the bipartisan budget bill." Smiling, the President replied: "Order up the cufflinks, and we'll go to work...