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...again Stockman's mastery of his job compensated for the controversy he caused, and the announcement of his departure was the cue for a bipartisan chorus of praise. "He was the only one who really knew the numbers," said Congressman Tony Coelho, a California Democrat. New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called him "the most effective OMB Director we've ever had."[*] Even the Washington Post's editorialists, often critical of Stockman's cuts, commended him "for a kind of intellectual and moral integrity that is rarely found in national public life." Stockman was bemused...
Such tales certainly did little to assuage the chagrin, even anger, that the Republicans felt about the President's undercutting them on the Social Security freeze. New Mexico's Domenici, who was not invited to the Oak Tree reception even though he chairs the Senate Budget Committee, called it "a terrible blow." Said another Senate source: "It was the Oak Tree meeting where they sawed off the limb Pete Domenici was on." Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said the arrangement amounted to "surrendering to the deficit." Growled Iowa's Charles Grassley, one of 22 Republican Senators up for re-election...
...naught,' " said Tony Coelho. "They've chosen the House budget to work with." The question was, could either the House or Senate version be revised under the framework established at the Oak Tree meeting to achieve $50 billion in deficit reductions, which both sides still say is their goal? Domenici professed "great skepticism...
...mended last week, the battered congressional budget process threatened to tear apart. Rancorous negotiations between congressional leaders to resolve differences in the House and Senate budget resolutions collapsed. "I assume that means no budget," huffed House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray, a Pennsylvania Democrat. His Senate counterpart, Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico, was equally gloomy: "Everywhere I turn I see no way to go." Senate Republicans were still smarting from what they regard as an act of betrayal by the White House. They had voted in May to eliminate the cost of living adjustment on Social Security...
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...