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...however, was the Senate's decision to hold defense spending to this year's level with only a $9.9 billion rise for inflation. Reagan had initially sought a 6% increase beyond the inflation rate. He had compromised with Republican leaders at 3%, or $20 billion. But when Republicans Charles Grassley of Iowa and Mark Hatfield of Oregon urged no increase above inflation, their proposal carried by a 51-to-48 vote...
...Garza, the Texas Democrat who heads the House Agriculture Committee, sneered that what Stockman was really saying was "Let's cut off the arms and legs of the patient. Then he'll be 30 lbs. lighter and less of a burden." Farm Belt Republicans were equally outraged. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, in a letter to Stockman, asked him to "please refrain from sermonizing on the free market, which seems most hypocritical from a Government that has been the root cause of the current farm-economy crisis...
...only $25 million in guarantees since the program began last September). Bipartisan groups of legislators, claiming that tens of thousands of farmers face bankruptcy before they can get their crops planted this spring, readied bills to force a vastly greater expansion of loan guarantees. One measure being drafted by Grassley and his Kansas Republican colleague, Senator Nancy Kassebaum, would increase the amount available to $4 billion. Exon and Oklahoma Democrat David Boren vowed a filibuster that would prevent the Senate from transacting any other business until it passed some such bill...
...intensity. The free-market fervor of the Administration's supporters is matched by the devotion of many of its critics to the medium-size family farm, not just as an economic interest but as the foundation of a clean and virtuous way of life that must be protected. Says Grassley: "It's almost a public utilitarian value to maintain the family farm. It's basic to the humanitarian responsibility of Government...
Nonetheless, Grassley and Kassebaum recommend an outright freeze on military spending as the only way to shock the Pentagon into the "substantive management reforms" that would buy fighting efficiency rather than military fat. Other lawmakers advance the idea of a freeze on viscerally political grounds rather than in the cause of efficiency. Their argument to the White House is in effect: Don't ask us to cut spending on food stamps and Medicare while approving higher outlays for missiles, planes, tanks and guns. If you are going to try to freeze overall spending, well, freeze everything. Then at least...