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Both its critics and supporters concede that the Gramm-Rudman proposal is an act of desperation. But, say its advocates, these are desperate times. Congress has shown that it cannot cut the deficit without some radical new constraints on the way it writes budgets. The danger lies less in the rationale behind the plan than in the haste with which it was conceived. Even some of its most fervent public supporters privately hope that given the extra few days of deliberations, refinements can be added in the House-Senate conference committee to make the measure more flexible...
...sensitive security access through normal checks. In one chilling incident, a U.S. citizen seeking top-secret clearance was found dead in his car shortly after he failed a polygraph test. National Security Agency investigators later learned that he had been spying for the Soviet Union. Said Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, who wants to broaden the Government's authority to test employees: "If (John) Walker had known of the possibility of random polygraph tests, I'm certain he would never have dared to become...
...Senators running for re-election were defeated. A few others had to fight. James Exon, 63, the Nebraska Democrat, won a tough race against Nancy Hoch, 48, an earnest, moderate Republican and one of nine women who challenged incumbents-all unsuccessfully. Contesting an open seat in Texas, Republican Phil Gramm, 42, badly beat Liberal Lloyd Doggett...
...Purvis (D) 224.111 32 73 Thurmond (R) 464.279 66 South Dakota George Cunningham (D) 47,129 26 61 E--Barry Pressler (R) 134 720 74 Tennesee E--Albert Gore Jr. (D) 959,238 60 97 Victor Ashe (R) 545,432 34 Texas David Doggett (D) 1,384,033 41 Gramm (R) 1,985,818 59 Virginia (D) 577,611 30 97 John Warner (R) 1,334,220 70 West Virginia 242,474 54 66 John Raese (R) 703,478 45 Wyoming...
Nowhere does the Reagan connection play louder or longer than in Texas, where G.O.P. Convert Phil Gramm, 42, and Democratic State Senator Lloyd Doggett, 38, are vying for the seat 3 of retiring Republican Senator John Tower. Gramm, who became a Republican in 1983, wears as a badge of honor his label as a co-author of Reagan's budget and tax-cutting legislation in 1981. He harps on his association with the President so often that Doggett was finally moved to rueful complaint. Said he: "President Reagan's neck is probably a little sore because Phil Gramm...