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...target for Democrats on Capitol Hill. Observed Leon Panetta, a key Democrat on the House Budget Committee: "He was knowledgeable. But now the first question will be: 'Is this just what you're saying, or do you really believe it?' " Insisted New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "It was not just an error of good intentions, it was an error of deception." Contended Democratic House Floor Leader James Wright: "Apparently he had the President mesmerized to pursue a course that he, Stockman, knew was not right...
...resoundingly defeated. The proposal, which would have allowed credits of up to $1,200 against District of Columbia income taxes for tuition, was opposed on the grounds that it would drain the city treasury and only further damage the already strapped District of Columbia school system. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan of New York, who has been a leading proponent of tuition tax credits. criticized the plan as a "caricature" because of the large sums involved. President Reagan favors the tuition tax credits, and conservatives had hoped that a win would put to rest fears that the scheme would harm minority...
...Adviser Richard Allen and moderates like CIA Deputy Director Bobby Inman on how far the Administration should go to accommodate congressional critics. In Congress, even the CIA's boosters would rather avoid yet another damaging, headline-making controversy. "Why is the Administration doing this?" asks Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "They're making the CIA a huge issue again, just when it was getting back to work...
...Reagan administration has shown itself doubly weak beneath its veneer of truculent rhetoric. As Moynihan said, Israel has been consigned to the role of the nation weak administrations push around to show how tough they are. In the realm of ideas, it is interesting that the administration felt it necessary to frame the AWACs debate in terms of presidential reliability and credibility abroad. The arguments in favor of the sale were plainly implausible...
...enough. Nor apparently, does the AWACs deal suffice. Four days after the military scuffle last month in Libya, the Gulf Co-operation Council, of which Saudi Arabia is a member, described American behavior as "active medieval piracy." The Saudi government did not disassociate itself from that ringing declaration, Moynihan pointed out in his speech. It took only a few hours after the Senate approval of the deal for the Saudi ambassador to say that his country thought it had already done enough for the Camp David peace process...