Word: lameduck
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...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...
...themselves the "family." Now the government must see to it that the rising inflation, unemployment, food shortages and the incipient bankruptcy of 250 businesses do not lead to the sorts of civil disorders and revolution that are plaguing the country's neighbors. Luckily for Carazo, he is a lameduck President whose term will expire in May 1982. With elections set for next February, the likely winner is Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, 55, a portly politician known as a team player rather than a charismatic leader...
Back in Washington that evening. Carter again tackled the issues that are his responsibility until Reagan is inaugurated. The President has nearly finished signing or vetoing the bills sent to him by the lameduck session of Congress, with decisions left only on how much protection to extend to the U.S. steel industry and whether to allow banks to open branches in other states. The President also was, as always, preoccupied with the hostage crisis in Iran, giving final approval to a State Department message that was dispatched to Tehran through Algerian intermediaries (see WORLD...