Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither do the Democrats, who plan to introduce their own job-creation legislation during the three-week lame-duck session. O'Neill anticipates bringing up a bill to construct more public housing and subsidize mortgages, and a proposal to plump up public repair and maintenance jobs. But given the President's determination to steer clear of conventional remedies for unemployment, even O'Neill's aides refer to the bills as "veto bait...
...HABIT both political parties have of making loud, frightening noises whenever the other makes a move has stymied reform so far Liberals like to call Social Security the "third rail" of politics, because to touch it is to die. When Reagan asked for a lame-duck session of Congress to consider the Social Security problem, for example. Tip O'Neill and Ted Kennedy scored quick points by accusing Reagan of a "secret plan" to cripple Social Security...
...lame-duck session should ideally give legislators a chance to consider Social Security without an election looming before them. A commission appointed by Reagan, the National Commission on Social Security Reform, is due to present recommendations on the Social Security problem by the end of this year, and, again ideally, Congress will soberly consider the commission's proposals and emerge with a responsible, dipartisan plan. "Between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a perfect time." "Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.) has noted cheerfully. "Even politicians aren't very political then...
...control room on Guam. Unless Anik (Inuit for brother) accepted their commands, the controllers could not angle it properly toward the sun or keep it locked in place. Thus its critical maneuvering propellants would quickly freeze. Without this fuel, the $24 million bird would be a dead duck...
Unemployment. The rising national unemployment rate hurt Republican candidates more than any other single issue. One result of this political chastening has been a surprising bipartisan consensus on some type of federal jobs program. In the lame-duck congressional session starting Nov. 29, the Democrats plan to introduce a bill to create some 600,000 jobs by rebuilding the nation's decaying highways, bridges, sewers and mass-transit systems. Sponsored by Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, it would be financed by scaling back Reagan's planned increases in defense spending and curtailing...