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Obey's proposal was crushed, 303-119. The next step was the vote to replace the Jones resolution with the Gramm-Latta substitute. Shortly before the roll call, O'Neill admitted that the outcome was clear. "I'm not trying to change any votes out there," he said with a shrug. As for the Republicans his party needed for any chance to win, O'Neill observed: "They're kind of running for the woods...
During the debate on Gramm-Latta, Republican Robert Michel of Illinois, the minority leader, argued that Reagan's budget was "a small step for Congress but a giant leap for the country." He placed it in a long-term perspective, declaring: "Let history show that we provided the margin of difference that changed the course of American government." O'Neill roused himself to deliver a stirring, if melancholy, defense of the social action programs he had helped shape during 28 years in Congress. "Do you want to meat-ax the programs that have made America great?" he asked...
...black caucus, a steel caucus, even a mushroom caucus, dedicated to defending mushroom-growing constituents against foreign competition. In all this factionalism, one group of conservative Democrats has acquired so much clout that it did more than any other bloc to ensure Ronald Reagan his big win on the Gramm-Latta resolution. These Congressmen, banded together in the Conservative Democratic Forum, are electoral descendants of the Dixie Democrats who ran Congress through the 1950s; the overwhelming majority of the 47 C.D.F. members are from the Old South.* But they resemble the Southern barons of yore in no other...
...party leadership that, they felt, had been ignoring them. O'Neill, who knew that Republicans had been seeking conservative Democratic votes against his re-election as Speaker, hastily complied. In the budget fight, the resolution that won Reagan's backing was written primarily by C.D.F. Member Phil Gramm, a former economics professor from Texas; seeking their support for the measure, the President wooed the conservative Democrats harder than he did any other bloc. In the end, C.D.F. members cast 38 of the 63 Democratic votes for Gramm-Latta...
...today many of the Speaker's good friends agree with Les Aspin that Tip is on the ropes. Despite a moving personal plea by O'Neill from the well of the House last week, 63 members of his party bolted ranks to vote for the Reagan-approved Gramm-Latta budget resolution. At that moment, it was clear that the nation's most powerful Democrat had been badly, perhaps even fatally, wounded...