Word: latta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filled with "bookkeeping gimmicks." For example, it reduces expenditures for entitlement programs like food stamps without adequately changing eligibility requirements. After meeting later in the week with key advisers, Reagan agreed to back the Stockman-prepared amendment. known on the Hill as "son of Gramm-Latta...
...Gramm-Latta" is rejected, major differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill will have to be ironed out in a joint conference committee, where Republicans may be able to overturn some of the House cuts. But the Administration does not want to wait until this stage to fight for its revisions. Reason: if funding disparities could not be resolved, they would be eliminated from both bills, meaning that certain programs would remain at current spending levels with no cuts...
...Among the sponsors of the substitute are Democrat Phil Gramm of Texas and Republican Delbert Latta of Ohio, who proposed the Reagan-backed bipartisan budget resolution that was approved by the House last month...
...backing was written primarily by C.D.F. Member Phil Gramm, a former economics professor from Texas; seeking their support for the measure, the President wooed the conservative Democrats harder than he did any other bloc. In the end, C.D.F. members cast 38 of the 63 Democratic votes for Gramm-Latta...
...many of the Speaker's good friends agree with Les Aspin that Tip is on the ropes. Despite a moving personal plea by O'Neill from the well of the House last week, 63 members of his party bolted ranks to vote for the Reagan-approved Gramm-Latta budget resolution. At that moment, it was clear that the nation's most powerful Democrat had been badly, perhaps even fatally, wounded...