Word: gramm
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BRYAN, TEXAS--Rep. Phil Gramm, a "Boll Weevil" Democrat whose party ousted him from the House Budget Committee, resigned his seat yesterday and said he would try to win it back in a special election as a Republican...
...recognize that my political future might, because of this action, go down into oblivion," said Gramm, 40, who was elected to his third term in November. "I do not know whether this is a wise decision but I do believe that it is an honest...
Republican Gov. Bill Clements, who accepted Gramm's resignation, set the special election...
...Gramm was kicked off the budget committee by the Democratic leadership in Congress for championing President Reagan's economic programs...
...rather than subjecting the plan to scores of amendments and piecemeal votes in the House and Senate. During the speech, Vice-President George Bush, who tried to banter with a grim House Speaker Tip O'Neill, canvassed the Democratic side of the aisle for signs of support. "Only Gramm applauded," the Speaker gruffly noted later, referring to Phil Gramm of Texas, co-sponsor of the President's budget bill last year. O'Neill later passed the word to his lieutenants that the federalism proposals would be considered not as a package but with all the appropriate committees...