Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enthused," said the vacationing President, while signing 35 bills at the Century Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Among them were two that formalized notable White House victories over Congress: a $200 billion defense spending bill and an $11.6 billion foreign aid appropriation, which will give the Executive Branch new flexibility to direct both military and development assistance. But that did not quite end the battle over expenditures for fiscal 1982, which began Oct. 1; large portions of the Federal Government are still being financed under a "continuing resolution" that expires March...
...benefits, to reduce spending by $35 billion. Both measures were written in the White House; the reconciliation bill was done so hastily that Texas Democrat Jim Wright, the House Majority Leader, called it "the sloppiest piece of draftsmanship I've ever seen-a terrible insult to the Legislative Branch...
...what the President would and would not accept. Moreover, Congress gave Reagan power within broad limits to take that $4 billion out of whichever programs he chose, over the anguished protest of House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jamie Whitten that "you might as well transfer full control to the Executive Branch and take the Legislative Branch out of business...
...move to fulfill one promise last week: he announced that he would ask Congress to dismantle the Department of Energy, formed only four years ago, and transfer most of its functions to the Commerce Department. The new plan, however, may be little more than a shell game, since no branch of the present Energy Department will be immediately eliminated...
...Happy holidays, Sears" is the way they answer the telephone this month at the Porter Square department store branch. Things may be merry at Sears, but for many Cambridge businesses sales will be "a little slower than last year," local merchants reported yesterday...