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...excess of U.S. imports over exports increased to more than $170 billion last year. Factories are closing, and the growth of the U.S. economy is being stunted. "The record of this Congress will be measured by how it deals with this issue," says Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd...
...passed in 1985, if Congress simply does nothing, the new pay scale will automatically take effect on Feb. 5, a month after it was presented to the legislature. But the Senate, for one, has opted for bluster and the appearance of self-sacrifice. This week Majority Leader Robert Byrd promises to put the raises to a vote. Byrd also hopes to impose stricter limits on honorariums that can boost Senators' incomes by more than $30,000 a year...
...that it is either possible or desirable to meet the Gramm-Rudman target." Admits Chiles: "There is nothing magic about $108 billion. But I think you have a problem if you abandon it without something better in its place." House Budget Chief Gray and incoming Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd have also suggested that Gramm-Rudman may have to be revamped. But the White House would probably object. Says Miller: "If we go back on Gramm- Rudman, the deficit will shoot right up again...
...Reagan revolution "has pretty much run out of gas," proclaims Robert Byrd, majority leader of the newly Democratic Senate. A partisan comment, to be sure, but not very different from what the President's aides are saying. Early in December, the senior White House staff held strategy sessions to search for new domestic policy initiatives. "They could not seem to come up with anything," reports one participant. "Now that we desperately need to control the agenda, there is nothing left...
Complicating all calculations is the pressure of time. Though he will be in office two more years, Reagan really has at most twelve months in which to get his Administration moving again. Congressional Democrats, similarly, have only until the end of 1987 to answer the question that Byrd rightly poses for this year's legislative session: "Can the Democrats govern in the post-Reagan era?" By next January the 1988 presidential campaigns will be in full swing in both parties, and any new initiatives will have to be put on hold until after the election. Both Reagan and the Democrats...