Word: metzenbaum
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...there will be an additional but unspecified $22.7 billion in budget cuts by 1984, that $7.7 billion will be saved by reducing waste and fraud by then, and that the Defense Department will finance 40% of scheduled pay raises by attrition and freezing civilian employment. Complained Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum: "I don't think the way to balance the budget is by gimmicking up the figures." Still, this plan should gain easy approval in the Republican-controlled Senate this week...
...Republicans together against all attempts by the ten Democrats to narrow reductions in social programs. Frustrated and divided, the Democrats in the end joined in a unanimous vote for the full package. "We are wreaking unbelievable havoc on the lives of millions of poor Americans," mourned Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum -just before he meekly murmured aye on the last roll call...
...resolution this week goes to the Senate floor, where it should pass easily. Cuts in specific programs then must be approved again by committees that actually control those programs, but they will be under instructions to limit spending to the amounts specified in the big budget bill. Concedes Metzenbaum: "When all is said and done, the President will pretty much get what he wanted...
During the 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan repeatedly called for gas decontrol as a way to boost exploration and supplies and cut dependence on foreign imported crude. When word leaked last week that the Administration intends to make good on that pledge, Congressmen reacted strongly. Warned Senate Democrat Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, who led the filibuster against the decontrol bill four years ago: "This body will be in session for a long time if the Administration decides to decontrol natural gas." Added Idaho Republican James McClure, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee: "Pressing for decontrol and getting it are two different...
When Dolan goes after Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Donald Riegle of Michigan, and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio in 1982, he will once again trundle out his Panama Canal Treaty posters, as he did this year in "targeting" Frank Church of Idaho. The young strategist defends his ploy: "That vote was a symbol of surrender, a recognition that American is not the number-one power in the world. American voters don't want to hear that. They reject that...