Word: lameduck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans likely to be still unemployed at Christmas, a legislator who fails to vote for something or other that can be labeled a "jobs bill" is casting himself as Ebenezer Scrooge. Or so believe many Representatives and Senators who are scrambling to push supposed job-creating measures through the lameduck session of Congress that is scheduled to end this week, while simultaneously growling to themselves the equivalent of "bah, humbug!" A startling number confess to the deepest skepticism that any of the bills would actually create a significant number of jobs any time soon...
...lobbyists chose PIK as the most promising. Block can probably start the plan without congressional approval, but he is asking the legislators for authority to freeze "target" (support) prices at their 1983 levels for the next two years. He is unlikely to get that authority from the current lameduck session and is uncertain whether he should start PIK without...
...developing brawl could begin this week in the lameduck session of Congress. Either house can indefinitely delay the deployment of the missile by refusing to approve funds for the Dense Pack basing plan. A move in the House last July to cancel MX production failed to pass by a mere three votes. A similar measure in the Senate lost by just four. The Administration is expected to wage an all-out fight to gain funding in the lameduck session since the new House, with 26 more Democrats than the present body, is expected to be even less receptive...
Social Security. This issue always spells political peril, which is why Reagan tried to avoid it during the campaign by establishing a commission on Social Security reform, with a safe post-election deadline of Dec. 31 for announcing its recommendations. When he insisted further that Congress reconvene for a lameduck session that starts Nov. 29, his thinly veiled intention was to push through benefit reductions during the only politically neutral stretch on the congressional calendar in the next two years. With hardly three weeks in the special session, neither party is eager to tackle anything more daring than renewing Social...
...Twists on Old Business. When Congress adjourned in October it left ten of its 1983 appropriations bills dangling, and a Government funded only by continuing resolution. The lameduck session probably will be asked to vote on Reagan-backed proposals to replace the public housing subsidy program with a voucher system, and to shave $1 billion from Title I, the main federal program for schoolchildren from poor families. The cut would mean that 2.5 million of the 5.4 million children currently served by the program would no longer be eligible...