Word: gramm-rudman
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...about the future is perhaps trying to distinguish himself from old-line, constituency-centered liberalism, what Kevin Phillips contemptuously calls "reactionary liberalism." That might have served some purpose in 1984. But what is the point now? Carter and Mondale are no more. Kennedy is gone, and even he supports Gramm-Rudman. We are all--Biden, Bradley, Babbitt, Gephardt and Robb--neoliberals now. There are no paleoliberals left, unless Mario Cuomo's principled disinclination to issue ostentatious rejections of the "past" tempts some to make the charge...
...Both its grand vision and many of its specifics are clearly designed to win Moscow public support in Western Europe and around the world while allow in to retain certain strategic advantages. The plan has a Grammsky-Rudsky appeal, decreeing a timetable for eliminating nuclear weapons the way the Gramm-Rudman Act has decreed a timetable for eliminating the U.S. budget deficit. As with Gramm-Rudman, the cuts proposed by Gorbachev seem to have an easy and automatic simplicity, but the plan ignores the hard and complex choices that will have to be made down the road to preserve...
...where its sponsors are two other experienced Irish pols, Edward Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The Administration is finding the road much bumpier for the rest of its $16.2 billion foreign aid package for fiscal year 1987, which many lawmakers regard as an exorbitant expenditure in the era of Gramm-Rudman. FEMINISM Back to The Streets...
...Defining the Comptroller General's role is a narrow task with wide importance as the Supreme Court considers Gramm-Rudman...
...packed last week with visitors who came to watch a tangled legal battle over just that issue, and with good reason. Rarely has such a narrow question held such wide implications for the conduct of Government. The real issue at hand was the budget-balancing scheme of the storied Gramm-Rudman Act. Whether the Comptroller is a servant of Congress or an impartial accountant is likely to be the point on which the court will decide the law's fate...