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...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...
...Morris Udall, a handful of liberals had proposed an alternative one-year tax cut that was easily voted down. Said John Conyers of Michigan: "We can't out-Republican the Republicans and then beat Reagan." Other Democrats were ready to punish the party rebels, such as Texan Phil Gramm, who sat in on Democratic budget caucuses while working with the White House, and Hance, who not only co-sponsored Reagan's tax cut bill but also won $40 in a White House staff pool by correctly guessing the number of Democrats who would bolt with...
...filled with "bookkeeping gimmicks." For example, it reduces expenditures for entitlement programs like food stamps without adequately changing eligibility requirements. After meeting later in the week with key advisers, Reagan agreed to back the Stockman-prepared amendment. known on the Hill as "son of Gramm-Latta...
...Gramm-Latta" is rejected, major differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill will have to be ironed out in a joint conference committee, where Republicans may be able to overturn some of the House cuts. But the Administration does not want to wait until this stage to fight for its revisions. Reason: if funding disparities could not be resolved, they would be eliminated from both bills, meaning that certain programs would remain at current spending levels with no cuts...
...Among the sponsors of the substitute are Democrat Phil Gramm of Texas and Republican Delbert Latta of Ohio, who proposed the Reagan-backed bipartisan budget resolution that was approved by the House last month...