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...officials said last night they will talk to the chairmen of three departments whose work is coordinated by the center, and added that a number of GSA members plan to write Pattullo to complain about the letter
...forced by Proposition 2 1/2, would provide an additional $150 million in aid to cities and towns over the next year. The provisions were unveiled at a press conference Friday afternoon, attended by one of King's senior officials, the President of the Senate, and the House and Senate chairmen of the Ways and Means Committees...
...institutional reforms passed in the mid-1970s did more than overhaul the budgetmaking process. They were designed to break the stranglehold on legislation held by powerful committee chairmen, often crusty autocrats and disproportionately Southern conservatives who attained power by virtue of seniority, not skill. One not wholly unexpected result has been that even relative newcomers now wield considerable power. Eager to make their mark, but lacking expertise, they tend to produce sloppily drafted laws. Example: an energy bill produced by the Senate Finance Committee was intended to assist Northerners earning below the poverty line in paying their heating bills...
...reform, intended to undermine the veto power formerly held by committee chairmen, was to give subcommittees funding and staffing independent of their parent committees, especially in the House. In the Senate, 16 new Republicans were elected in 1980, and every one of them chairs at least one and more often two influential subcommittees. New York Republican Alfonse D'Amato, who is considered something of a legislative featherweight by congressional observers, chairs three subcommittees: Urban and Rural Development, Securities, and District of Columbia...
Behind the scenes, representatives of both sides were much more flexible, although Baker insisted the tax-cut plan was not up for discussion. The group-consisting of top White House aides led by Baker, Republican Senate chairmen led by New Mexico's Pete Domenici, and House Democratic chairmen led by Oklahoma's Jim Jones-agreed to use the economic assumptions of the Congressional Budget Office rather than the rosier Administration numbers. According to the CBO, the deficit for fiscal 1983, which begins Oct. 1, could reach $180 billion if Congress does not pass any of the spending cuts...