Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee (PAC), originally created to insure the representation of minority views in our democracy, now threaten to engulf the very political machination that created them--the budgetary process. The PAC has become a real-life Washington nightmare of "The Blob," a mass of lobbyists that spills down from Capitol Hill, tearing at the heartland of America. Men, women, children run for cover...
Someday the 535-strong battalion of Congress will charge up the Hill crying, "We will not do lunch anymore...
...will try to depict his budget plan as an exciting opportunity to liberate the forces of free enterprise from the shackles of Big Government. It is doubtful that many Congressmen will be moved. Already last week some legislators were pronouncing the Reagan budget "dead before arrival." Still, more realistic Hill leaders were aware that the President's budget cannot be dismissed out of hand, as it has been in the past. Congressional budget writers may differ on how to get there, but Gramm-Rudman requires that Congress and the White House arrive at the same bottom line. "They...
...Some Hill leaders would like to junk the creaky and ponderous budget process and instead try to hammer out a grand compromise at a "summit" meeting between Hill leaders of both parties and the Administration. So far, however, Reagan has shown no willingness to come to the bargaining table. He seems to believe that if he stands fast, the Hill will eventually blink and adopt his budget. He figures that Congressmen will not want to go to the voters in November to explain why they raised taxes and jeopardized national security...
Despite the red carpet reception for Savimbi, Congress remains uneasy on the question of U.S. involvement in southwestern Africa's complicated political stalemate. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Dante Fascell thinks the chances are "slight to none" that aid for UNITA would survive the Capitol Hill appropriations process. One major obstacle: the crunch on foreign aid imposed by the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction...