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...light, the lawmakers went about their business as usual. Since the bells normally used to call the Senate to order had been knocked out, a clerk gained the attention of the nation's most exclusive debating society by thumping loudly on a metal trash can. Quipped Majority Leader Robert Dole: "We work in the dark most of the time anyway...
Even the most optimistic reckoning put the 1986 deficit at more than $ 170 billion, less than the anticipated $200 billion but a long way from Congress's original target of $100 billion or less by 1988. "We really haven't reduced the deficit all that much," said Dole on NBC's Today show. "It's a small step forward. It's not a big step." Complained Florida's Lawton Chiles, ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee: "Our problem is not the budget process. It's the absence of will." Congress, said Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, had gone...
...Thursday night, the audience chose a celebrity victor, Magician Harry Blackstone, who beat out the bigger names like Dick Cavett, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "I hate magicians," noted Sherrill Luke, a judge from Los Angeles, "but this man was very amusing." Forty-three hopefuls entered the amateur contest, fondly known as the Hal Holbrook Speaking Ladder because the actor who makes $20,000 each time he impersonates Mark Twain was discovered there. Nine contestants made it to the finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech...
...Republicans in almost the same breath go on to accuse him of engineering a ruinous attempt at compromise on the budget. Asked his opinion of Regan, one Republican Senator rolls his eyes and mutters, "Disaster. We go down the tubes if he takes over." Republican Senator Robert Dole carefully chose his words last week on ABC's Good Morning America when asked about the job of getting a budget compromise. "We know we can't do it without Ronald Reagan," the Majority Leader said. "We could probably do it without Don Regan...
Tensions lingered between Republican Senators and the White House over Social Security cost of living adjustments. Majority Leader Robert Dole and Senate Budget Chairman Pete Domenici had persuaded their colleagues to tempt the wrath of constituents by proposing a one-year freeze on COLAs. Three weeks ago, Reagan withdrew his support for the freeze, and angry Senators took it as a double cross. White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan further enraged Dole by accusing the lawmakers of shying away from the deficit crisis. "They are afraid to come to grips with it," Regan said. Last week the chief...