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...budget deficits that have become a Washington way of life over the past two decades. Right now. Congress knows that the deficit must be cut, but naturally dreads deciding on its own whose funds should be cut. So the legislators left it to U.S. Comptroller General Charles Bowsher to trim $11.7 billion from this year's budget. Then beginning with the fiscal-1987 budget that Reagan must submit next week, the restrictions become automatic. Discretion, choice, judgment--all are subordinated to the rule imposed by Gramm-Rudman that the deficit must be reduced in $36 billion increments each year until...
Senator Pat Moynihan asked Comptroller General Bowsher, at a hearing last week, whether the various exemptions did not mean that the vulnerable areas of domestic spending will actually have to be slashed by a devastating 25% next year and vulnerable defense outlays by perhaps 18%. "That's in the ball park," said Bowsher, thus conjuring up a ball park stripped of seats, gates and outfield fences...
...Bowsher had been blocked, knocked and toppled--and had still managed to unleash a blast into the upper reaches of the net from just outside...
...Debbie Belkin (Kristen Bowsher...
...Catherine Spence (Schmitt) 23:10; M, Bowsher (Michelle Powers) 31:55; M, Spence (Catherine Cassady...