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...also threatened to call a vote on Reagan's original budget, claiming, "The President complained to us yesterday that his budget had not been taken up." Washington Congressman Thomas Foley, the Democratic whip, had no doubt how that vote would go. "If we withdrew every Democrat from the chamber and permitted only Republicans to vote," he predicted, "the President's budget would be resoundingly defeated...
Rhythmic shouts of "D'Aubuisson! D'Aubuisson!" erupted from the gallery as the boyish-looking figure strode toward the dais of San Salvador's wood-and marble-paneled Blue Chamber in the Legislative Palace. Wearing a three-piece suit, he glanced down at his ten-page handwritten text and declared, "Now that we are starting on the road toward representative democracy, we will leave in the past all desires for revenge. We will use all our strength to guarantee human rights, and we will gain, step by step, that precious tranquillity that we have lost...
...purposes. It passed legislation banning this practice. It also created a highly professional Congressional Budget Office and two new budget committees in the House and Senate. These committees were given authority to set spending limits for key budget items, enforceable on all other relevant committees when approved by each chamber of Congress in a single sweeping vote...
...stirring speeches resound from the majority leader's seat, front and center in the Senate's stately chamber. No grand initiatives are launched. No crafty deals are struck, no arms are twisted. Yet easygoing Howard Henry Baker Jr., 56, of tiny Huntsville, Tenn. (pop. 519), has become one of the most effective shepherds in the history of the cantankerous club that he leads. With an amiable aw-shucks manner, he wanders the corridors keeping his troops in line and his opponents placated. "The cloakroom becomes my office," he says. "The floor is my domain...
Baker was elected to the Senate in 1966, on his second try, becoming the first Republican to represent Tennessee in that chamber since 1913. He had yet to learn the value of patience: during his first term, he made a somewhat impertinent bid to succeed his late father-in-law as minority leader. He was soundly defeated by Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, who beat Baker again two years later. When Scott retired in 1977, Baker was hesitant to make a third attempt. But he put his name forward at the last minute and edged out Robert Griffin of Michigan...