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...HABIT both political parties have of making loud, frightening noises whenever the other makes a move has stymied reform so far Liberals like to call Social Security the "third rail" of politics, because to touch it is to die. When Reagan asked for a lame-duck session of Congress to consider the Social Security problem, for example. Tip O'Neill and Ted Kennedy scored quick points by accusing Reagan of a "secret plan" to cripple Social Security...
...lame-duck session should ideally give legislators a chance to consider Social Security without an election looming before them. A commission appointed by Reagan, the National Commission on Social Security Reform, is due to present recommendations on the Social Security problem by the end of this year, and, again ideally, Congress will soberly consider the commission's proposals and emerge with a responsible, dipartisan plan. "Between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a perfect time." "Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kans.) has noted cheerfully. "Even politicians aren't very political then...
Unemployment. The rising national unemployment rate hurt Republican candidates more than any other single issue. One result of this political chastening has been a surprising bipartisan consensus on some type of federal jobs program. In the lame-duck congressional session starting Nov. 29, the Democrats plan to introduce a bill to create some 600,000 jobs by rebuilding the nation's decaying highways, bridges, sewers and mass-transit systems. Sponsored by Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, it would be financed by scaling back Reagan's planned increases in defense spending and curtailing...
This week has been one of those times. The state legislators convened for their lame-duck session Monday, and they quickly demonstrated their instinct for self-interest and their aversion to bold political action...
...state legislature opened its lame duck session yesterday with work on pay raises and drug law reform--high priority items on an agenda influenced by the recent state elections...