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Instead, Robert Latta, a vacationer from Denver, followed the 33 musicians into the White House, wandered up to the second floor and then poked around for more than ten minutes before the Secret Service belatedly grabbed him near the Blue Room. "It was an adventure for me," says Latta. "I just wanted to see how far I could get." Latta's breezy breach of security mortified the White House. Says Speakes: "The Secret Service is taking a hard look at this matter...
...Congress began consideration of proposed amendments to the Constitution that would permit supposedly voluntary prayer in public schools, overturning Supreme Court decisions in 1962 and 1963 that are bitterly resented by many religious groups and their political allies. The high court rulings, cried Ohio Republican Delbert Latta during an all-night House speech-making session, "favor atheism over Christianity...
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...
Lingering discontent about the Latta budget means that Republicans still have a lot more work to do to make their spending plan stick. The House resolution now goes to a conference committee that will try to work out a compromise with a budget passed by the Senate last month that provides for $19 billion more in spending. Then comes the hardest part: the "reconciliation" process, in which various congressional committees must make their 1983 spending and tax legislation conform with the budget guidelines. In an election year, there will be a temptation to fund politically popular programs and vote against...