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Last week's House debate was a classic donnybrook, not just between Democrats and Republicans but also between free-spending liberals and hard-fisted conservatives, between Congressmen who want to cut military spending in favor of social welfare and those who want the exact opposite. Serving as a referee of sorts was Giaimo, 58, whose job was to ensure that no one could force through an amendment greatly changing the overall figures worked out by the Democratic leadership...
...Congressman was confronted last week by an array of lobbyists and Congressmen who wanted to tack more money onto the budget resolution-for defense, for social service programs, for farm supports, for education, for veterans' benefits. To all of them, Giaimo had the same rejoinder: "It's time that we curb our appetites. If we're ever going to get control of the budget, this is the time...
Congress is only making the deficit problem worse. As next week's deadline approaches for House approval of the so-called target budget, which will determine the basic size of fiscal 1979 spending, many of the 435 Congressmen are rushing to push various pet projects into the overloaded document. Expenditures for agriculture, education, community development and veterans' benefits all have been increased by at least $1 billion more than Carter proposed. Complains House Budget Committee Chairman Robert Giaimo of Connecticut: "We've got to stop all these bright little ideas from being passed. You add them...
...their return to the fold only recently, pressure has been building for a number of years for a re-instatement of another Vietnam-era favorite, the Selective Service System. The movement has been subtle, of course: no bills have been introduced to Congress yet, and so far very few Congressmen have gone to the stumps with formula-like speeches about devotion to God, flag and motherhood. But lobbying for the draft has apparently gone on behind the scenes, taking the less obvious form of news documentaries, reports of "concerned citizens' groups," and the ever-present Pentagon predictions of an impending...
...signs of this new mood are not yet obvious, but they are there. In Congress, agitation for reconsideration of the draft is growing--often instigated by Congressmen, such as Rep. Joseph P. Adabbo (D-N.Y.), who five years ago were on the other side of the fence. Even more significant, however, is the apparent eagerness of many students to accept a second portent of a growing militarism: for as most major newspapers have formed the habit of noting. Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs, and other military-funded scholarship plans, are experiencing a renaissance at a number of major...