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When debate opened three weeks ago on federal spending in 1981, House Budget Committee Chairman Robert Giaimo of Connecticut predicted that Congress was about to achieve a "historic breakthrough"-the first balanced budget in twelve years. Last week the House did just that, voting by 225 to 193 to spend $611.8 billion in the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1. The budget projects a $2 billion surplus, in contrast to the $42.8 billion deficit on 1980 spending of $571.6 billion...
...House Budget Committee already has voted to trim planned spending by $16.5 billion, pushed hard by Chairman Robert Giaimo of Connecticut, who announced last week that he will retire from the House after eleven terms. Floor debate on the committee's resolution, however, which had been scheduled to begin last week, was put off until after Easter. Giaimo said darkly that "there are forces at work trying to delay the vote. They want labor and the special-interest groups to work the members over during the Easter recess...
Liberal Democrats have tried twice, with President Carter's backing, to restore $500 million in aid to cities, but they have been beaten both times. Meanwhile, Giaimo has won the agreement of House Republicans, who usually vote en masse against any Democratic budget proposals, to back his program-eventually. What the Senate may do is uncertain; its Budget Committee has only begun to draft spending and revenue proposals...
...talk of slashing expenditures, the House Armed Services Committee voted to spend $2.2 billion more on Navy shipbuilding next year than President Carter had requested, and the House Agriculture Committee voted higher price-support loans to farmers, estimated to cost anywhere from $1.7 billion to $3 billion. Giaimo has included in the House Budget Committee resolution a statement that would in effect order other committees to respect the overall spending limits, but some committee chairmen are rebelling...
...hard-pressed cities and lost by the narrowest conceivable margin: a 12-to-12 tie. The Republicans voted for the final resolution, which goes to the full House this week, but six liberal Democrats voted no. David Obey of Wisconsin promised to offer a liberal substitute for the Giaimo budget in House floor debate, and Carter, seeming to waver on his own budget-cutting resolve, vowed to back more aid to cities...