Word: lameduck
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...days after the special lameduck session of the 97th Congress was supposed to adjourn, Baker finally regained a moment of control over the cantankerous Senate and the measure passed. With that the Senators fled for home, as well they might, leaving behind the near debacle that the special session of Congress had become...
...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...
...even part of the original agenda for the lameduck session, which was requested by President Reagan to prod Congress into passing the necessary appropriation bills for fiscal 1983, a period that began, of course, last October. The members bungled that task, the result being that 80% of the Government's funding needs had to be lumped once again into a catch-all piece of legislation called a continuing resolution. They did better when it came to granting themselves a pay raise and grabbing pork-barrel goodies (see box). Said Oklahoma Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee...
...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...