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King's wife, Joyce, four of his six children, and a five-month-old granddaughter joined the South Boston community activist on the platform as he marked the start of a national petition campaign against the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction bill, which he called "unconstitutional...
King called Gramm-Rudman "taxation without representation," adding that the automatic budget cuts the act mandates would shift power from Congress and the judiciary to the executive branch of the Federal government. He also said the bill would cut social programs, including student aid, to dangerously low levels while protecting excessive military spending...
FOOTNOTE: *Republican Freshmen Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren B. Rudman of New Hampshire actually have a better-known co-sponsor, Democrat Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, but two sponsors' names are generally about all that people want to remember. Purists call it Gramm-Rudman- Hollings, or GRH. Officially, its name is the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control...
...Washington, legislators are mired in trying to find ways to cut spending in accordance with the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction bill (see Essay). Confronted with severe cutbacks in revenue sharing, states are searching for innovative ways to make their social programs more effective. Workfare could prove to be an important example for future experiments...
...going to have a very tough fight on its hands on lethal aid," he said. He noted that the nations involved in the Contadora process (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Panama) have renewed their efforts to seek a regional solution to the conflict in Nicaragua. At the same time, the Gramm- Rudman deficit-reduction plan will require cutbacks in foreign-aid appropriations; any increase to the contras could be at the expense of other nations...