Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, Joy, was successfully operated on last year for lung cancer. A pragmatic, contradictory, intensely private man, who once promised, "I'll be a political President, but I will try to ennoble politics," Baker may also have simply found the pressures of last December's lameduck session (which he strongly advised Reagan against) too much for a reasonable man to bear...
...will depend on the ability of moderate Senate Republicans, like Baker and Robert Dole of Kansas, to broker consensus policies acceptable to both Reagan and the House Democratic leadership. For this to work, Helms and his band of renegade Republicans must be controlled better than they were during the lameduck session. In addition, Reagan, who up to now has had great success in persuading Congress to do his bidding, must show that he also has the flexibility to work with the institution when it asserts more independence. Otherwise, the pendulum will swing from a Congress that once had blind faith...
...rather than the formal passage of appropriation bills, marked the first time in three years that Congress had provided a full year of funding for the Government before adjourning for Christmas. President Reagan, while emphasizing that he was still "deeply troubled by the budget-making process," said of the lameduck session: "After taking all factors into account, I think this effort has been worthwhile...
...Twas the season to be generous, if not jolly, on Capitol Hill. In its preholiday I dash toward adjournment, the lameduck Congress bestowed dozens of baubles, bangles and beads on the folks (and special-interest groups) back home. The result, fumed Silvio Conte, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, was "a Christmas tree...
...particular, investors saw the congressional lameduck session just ended as yet more proof that the Government remains hopelessly incapable of reducing the nation's ever swelling budget deficit. Last week alone the Treasury issued $26 billion of bills and notes to help feed the Government's craving for cash, and the needs will grow as the federal deficit heads to a record $165 billion this fiscal year. One Treasury aide describes the borrowing outlook for early 1983 this way: "You can think of it as $5 billion a week, $1 billion a day or $125 million an hour...