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Whoever is tapped will be hard put to become as powerful a player as was the once obscure, two-term Michigan Congressman and former Harvard Divinity School student. After the 1980 election, Stockman was so little known in the Reagan camp that he was not invited to the President-elect's major planning sessions in Los Angeles. But Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, then a mentor of Stockman's, brought along a memo his protégé had written called "Avoiding a G.O.P. Economic Dunkirk" and recommended him as Budget Director...
...following morning, Reagan summoned all 28 Senate and House budget negotiators for the meeting at the White House where tempers flared. According to Democratic Congressman Thomas Downey of New York, House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray complained to Reagan about a radio address he had delivered criticizing the Democrats' budget proposal as "phony." Said Gray: "Look, it doesn't do either of us any good to describe our plans this way." The President was riled, but he did not actually throw down his pencil until two Senators, Republican Slade Gorton and Democrat Lawton Chiles, started to talk about the need...
...billion in deficit reduction for 1986 would supposedly come from curtailing the practice of contracting out to private industry such services as security and cleaning for federal buildings. The House, defying decades of experience, assumes that the Government could perform these functions far more cheaply itself. "Baloney," scoffs Congressman Delbert Latta, ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee. A committee staffer concedes that the figure was reached not after careful study but by "aneducated guess...
...more complex. In the view of many advocates, the hope that U.S. investment would spur an economic advance that in turn would undermine apartheid has turned out to be an illusion. "Since the founding of apartheid, there has been tremendous economic growth" in South Africa, says Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman William Gray. "But apartheid is stronger today than it was ten or 15 years...
Regan's power has its price, however. Observes one Republican Congressman: "If you are the undisputed boss, you also have the undisputed responsibility when things go wrong." And Regan is indeed being blamed for everything from excessive hyperbole in the President's pre-surgery speeches to a breakdown in the Administration's relations with Congress...