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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...
During the debate on Gramm-Latta, Republican Robert Michel of Illinois, the minority leader, argued that Reagan's budget was "a small step for Congress but a giant leap for the country." He placed it in a long-term perspective, declaring: "Let history show that we provided the margin of difference that changed the course of American government." O'Neill roused himself to deliver a stirring, if melancholy, defense of the social action programs he had helped shape during 28 years in Congress. "Do you want to meat-ax the programs that have made America great?" he asked...
...caucus, a steel caucus, even a mushroom caucus, dedicated to defending mushroom-growing constituents against foreign competition. In all this factionalism, one group of conservative Democrats has acquired so much clout that it did more than any other bloc to ensure Ronald Reagan his big win on the Gramm-Latta resolution. These Congressmen, banded together in the Conservative Democratic Forum, are electoral descendants of the Dixie Democrats who ran Congress through the 1950s; the overwhelming majority of the 47 C.D.F. members are from the Old South.* But they resemble the Southern barons of yore in no other...
...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...