Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Budget Battle Fighting off big spenders-and big cutters...
Were working like s.o.b.s," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "I've talked to them all, trying to keep them in line." It took all of O'Neill's persuasive powers last week to keep Jimmy Carter's unbalanced budget for fiscal 1980 from coming apart under twin assaults from big-spending Democrats and from budget-cutting Republicans. The palaver apparently paid off. The House budget resolution to be voted on this week differed only slightly from Carter's version...
...asked for a $532 billion budget and assumed revenues of $504 billion, with a $28 billion deficit. The House lopped $2 billion from defense, eliminated the President's proposed $2.5 billion real-wage insurance and $2.3 billion in revenue sharing, and added some funds to social spending. The result: spending of $532.7 billion. But by estimating revenues at $508 billion because of a higher projected G.N.P., the House claimed a lower deficit of $24.9 billion...
Denouncing the budget as a "sham," House Republicans tried to clobber it with amendments. One of them was for a $523.4 billion budget with a deficit of $15.2 billion and a tax cut of $6.5 billion. This was defeated 228 to 191. Then came a proposal for the spending of $526.9 billion with an $18.7 billion deficit. The measure was voted down, 218 to 198. New York Republican Jack Kemp proposed indexing individual income tax brackets to offset inflation in 1979 and cutting income taxes by 10% in 1980. By 229 to 182, the House said...
Difficult as these fights were, the Democratic leaders actually had more trouble with their big-spending allies. Lobbyists from consumer, church, education, union and urban groups stalked Congressmen in the halls and their offices, showing open disdain for efforts to reduce the budget, despite the clear public cry for less Government spending. Scoffed Kenneth Young, chief lobbyist for the AFL-CIO: "The members are looking for ways to show how fiscally responsible they are. I'm afraid too many are just looking for political votes." Added Evelyn Dubrow, veteran lobbyist for the International Ladies' Garment Workers: "I think...