Word: latta
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Proposed by Republican Delbert Latta of Ohio, with the backing of the White House, the plan was the tenth budget that the House had considered in the past three weeks. It was very likely the last real alternative to having no budget at all. This fear of total failure-and of continued castigation by Reagan as the cause of all economic woes-was the key to the congressional vote. "The members perceived that this could be it," said Mississippi Republican Trent Lott. "There was a feeling that we had to pass a budget today." Added Liberal Democrat James Shannon...
...Democrats, including most of the conservatives known as "boll weevils," were needed to offset the defection of 32 Republicans. These included a new conservative bloc of Republicans called the "yellow jackets," who supported the Latta plan on a key procedural tally but voted against final passage of the budget out of protest against high deficits, and a moderate G.O.P. group known as "gypsy moths," who objected to the cuts in domestic spending. One top White House aide, flying back from Europe with the President, joked: "What the whole congressional process needs is a good dose of insecticide...
Excoriated by liberals for being unduly harsh on the poor, the Latta budget appropriates $473.7 billion for domestic programs, which is $8 billion less than in Reagan's 1982 budget and almost $20 billion less than in Jimmy Carter's 1981 budget. For fiscal 1983, which starts in October, the plan cuts funds for food stamps by $1.4 billion, to $11.4 billion...
...billion more than this year's allocation but $7 billion less than the President had sought, and pledged to raise $21 billion in unspecified new tax revenue in order to keep their projected 1983 deficit below $100 billion. (The Congressional Budget Office estimated last week that the Latta deficit would actually be $109.8 billion, a figure the Republicans assiduously ignored...
...podium to present the bill, Ohio Republican Delbert Latta, co-author of the Administration's proposal, discovered that the drafters had left out any money for bilingual education. He penciled in a sum, but perhaps mistakenly made it $85 million rather than the $157 million requested by President Reagan and approved by the Republican-controlled Senate. The House bill contains no funds at all for Project Head Start, which prepares poor children for school, even though Reagan in February had named it as a program he did not want to cut, much less eliminate; Republican leaders decided to deal...