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...authors (the others: Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm and South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings). New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, called it a "flagrant abdication of congressional responsibility." Last week the Supreme Court leveled the ultimate criticism, ruling that a key provision of GrammRudman is unconstitutional...
...with that austerity, towns are looking for new ways to reduce their spending. Says Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, whose city saves money by hiring companies to perform such services as street sweeping and landfill management: "We're all in a fiscal bind right now, exacerbated by federal cuts and GrammRudman, and it is not going to get better. To a greater degree than ever before, cities are dependent upon their own resources, and they're going to have to be very innovative about ways to cut costs...
...political impact could be profound. To the Democrats who controlled Congress for a half-century, GrammRudman marks the end of an era, assuming its provisions are actually followed. No longer will legislators be able to view their primary role as dispensers of Government largesse. From now on, the overriding business of Congress becomes the politically unrewarding task of slashing, and in some cases abolishing, the legislative handiwork of the past three decades...
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