Word: gradison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often invites Darman or Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady along to go over this point or that; sometimes he turns it into a working lunch. Bush is soon on the telephone shopping the options around to his "sources" on Capitol Hill: Senator Robert Dole on political matters, Ohio Congressman Willis Gradison on health care and economic matters, Tennessee Republican Don Sundquist on tax questions. Following the May Cabinet debates over which countries to name as unfair traders under the new "Super 301" section of the 1988 trade bill, Bush's consultations with key lawmakers stiffened his resolve to name Japan, India...
Despite the presidential-congressional sparring of the Reagan years, insiders say that Bush and the Democratically-controlled Congress will be able to reach a compromise measure for deficit reduction, even if it is a politically unpopular tax increase. Congressional leaders like Gradison, the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, note that Congress is as committed to a balanced budget as the president...
...have institutionalized our concern about the deficit with the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings bill and saying basically if certain cuts aren't made other certain dire cuts will take place," says Gradison. "I do think there is a growing consensus that cuts across party lines that the deficit has to be brought down and that compromises have to be made...
...Says Gradison, a senior House Republican, "Bush in 1992 is going to have to face the question of what progress has been made in moving towards the elimination of the budget deficit...
...Willis D. Gradison (R-Ohio), ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Comittee and a Business School grad...