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Still, many Congressmen fear that payouts from the program would bloat the budget deficit well beyond the $29 billion target set by the Administration for fiscal 1980. The White House calculates that based on an inflation rate of 7.5% for all of that period, real wage insurance should cost no more than $2.5 billion. But some forecasts point to an average inflation rate of 9% or more this year...
Taiwan also dominated Teng's talks in another forum: Capitol Hill. He lunched with 85 Senators, drank tea with 80 Congressmen and chatted privately with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and House leaders. The Vice Premier repeatedly told his congressional hosts that Peking will not use force against Taiwan, unless it has to. "If they refuse to negotiate," he asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, "what are we to do?" But Teng promised the Senators and Congressmen that after reunification, Taiwan can retain its capitalistic economy and even its armed forces...
Among them was George Bush, 54, a former Congressman, CIA director and U.S. envoy to Peking, who likes to be described as "the thinking man's candidate." Said he: "Call me a conservative, but one with compassion." Bush lunched with G.O.P. Congressmen, breakfasted with reporters and made a low-key speech in Georgetown...
...almost took away the nomination from President Gerald Ford in 1976 swept smoothly through visits with nearly every Republican Senator on Capitol Hill last week. He lunched with some 60 G.O.P. Congressmen and held 20-minute private talks with several others. Reagan demanded no commitments to his still unannounced candidacy and worked instead to moderate his image of extreme conservatism. "He appeared very reasonable," said Iowa Congressman James Leach, a moderate. "He tried to show us he was in tune with other people...
...expect the Soviet will be more affected by political considerations than the legal merits of our argument," Artz said. Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Patricia S. Schroeder (D.-Col.) signed the petition at Artz's request because the Soviets will pay more attention to congressmen," she said...