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Despite a lot of huddling last week, neither side in Congress is close to agreeing on a specific package. Said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole: "We haven't put enough together to wad a shotgun." The Democrats were still busy jockeying for position. Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd called on the President to submit a new budget with a vastly reduced deficit. House Speaker Tip O'Neill proposed a Camp David meeting of Administration and congressional leaders of both parties, at which a bipartisan budget could be worked out. The simplest but also the most provocative proposal...
...almost daily in his back office as a member of a group known as the Big Five to work on alternatives to the President's budget. The five include himself; Mark Hatfield of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee; Paul Laxalt of Nevada, a Reagan intimate; Robert Dole of Kansas, head of the Finance Committee; and New Mexico's Pete Domenici, chairman of the Budget Committee. "My objective is to find a budget we can pass," says Baker, who is widely seen as the only man with the clout and skill to break the impasse...
...savaging the GOP leadership for its less than full-hearted support of the budget. Headlines like "Why Aren't GOP Leaders Selling President's Budget" or "GOP Leaders Damaging 1982 Elections Prospects" dot recent front pages of the tabloid. Winter and his associate have hammered away at Senators Baker, Dole, and Domenici for showing skepticism about the administration's economic plans. Indeed, though the editor commended Reagan for continuing his "revolutionary path" with the new budget and new federalism, they urge still further spending cuts, "We think the President should have concentrated far more on the immediate control...
...cuts that were designed to spur investment in job-creating factories and to increase industrial productivity. That legislative largesse enabled some highly profitable companies to reduce tax bills greatly. Now, with Congress trying to find ways to slash the gargantuan federal budget deficits, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole and other congressional leaders want to rescind some of their generosity...
Last month Senator Dole denounced these deals and said that the provision would be removed from the tax law or substantially limited. A well-organized lobby, though, has mounted a campaign to keep the leasing tax break. One organization fighting for it is the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Last year the MTA sold 598 buses and ten commuter rail cars for more than $15 million to Metromedia. The MTA now leases the buses and cars from the communications conglomerate...