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...substantial tax cut, sharp increases in military spending and progress toward deregulation of business and the elimination of needless bureaucratic rules. The mechanism that Reagan may try to use is the passage of "sunset laws" killing regulations unless they are examined periodically and specifically reapproved. There is growing bipartisan sentiment for all such measures...
...Representatives and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But last week Carter won the final set and with it the match-for the time being at least. The Senate voted 48 to 46 to allow the Administration to sell uranium to India. The skein of defeats and the closeness and bipartisan nature of the final vote in the Senate reflected the complexity of the issue, which involved a clash between principle and pragmatism over the way the U.S. should control the sale of nuclear materials abroad...
...darn it, he was going to share them with his friends all over America. Said Wisconsin's Republican Governor Lee Dreyfus, a Ph.D. in communications: "I'd give him an A if he were in my class." That was the mark generally awarded Reagan, even on a bipartisan basis. Said Theodore Sorensen, who helped draft John Kennedy's 1960 Inaugural Address: "Reagan tried to make the tent he was constructing large enough to hold a significant portion of the population, and I think he did it." Iowa's G.O.P. Governor Robert Ray, who has been cool...
Nunn: Absolutely not, unless the President comes out for it, unless there is a bipartisan coalition supporting it. I think that the form of draft used would be a lottery. The draft used at the beginning of the Viet Nam War was inequitable, but the lottery system that replaced it in later years was not that...
...presidential ambitions behind him, Muskie plunged back into his Senate duties, assuming the chairmanship of the new Budget Committee in 1975. He succeeded in forging a bipartisan coalition that this year, for the first time, produced a balanced budget. He somewhat modified his New Deal liberalism and became more of a fiscal conservative, though he continued to rage at what he considered to be overzealous budget cutters. When 46 Senators tried to limit federal spending in fiscal 1981 to 21% of G.N.P., he revealed that 34 of them had recently voted to breach the budget to provide more funds...