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Gray's proposed budget accepts the full $13.2 billion in new taxes passed by the Senate, but Democratic leaders remained wary. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. has warned that Democrats would be blamed for any tax increase above the $6 billion proposed by President Reagan unless it passed without Republican support...
Roosevelt, who is the grandson of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, called his chances of winning the seat vacated by House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill "very good. The campaign is going well. My name recognition has tripled...
...Administration's case drew vigorous agreement across almost the full spectrum of American political opinion. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, usually a leader of opposition to what his fellow Democrats see as an overly adventurous Reagan foreign policy, declared that "we just can't let this madman of terrorism (Gaddafi) keep threatening." Indeed, said O'Neill, if Libya continues to foment terrorism, "I think the American people would demand that we go in again." The New York Times and Washington Post, whose editorial writers are often skeptical about military action overseas, voiced approval of the raid. The most notable dissenter...
Across the aisle, the realization slowly dawned on the Democrats that the G.O.P. had outfoxed them. After the House rebuffed contra aid a month ago, Speaker Tip O'Neill had agreed to bring the matter back to the House floor -- but only if it was attached to a supplemental appropriations bill packed with goodies for legislators. He knew that the President was opposed to the pork-barrel bill. He also knew that it would take weeks or months before the House version could be reconciled with a Senate bill and put into a form that Reagan might sign. Thus, attaching...
After last week's vote, Republican Leader Bob Michel charged that the Democrats were playing a "variation of the old con game, 'Heads I win; tails you lose.' " Declared Michel: "We refuse to play." Recognizing that he had been outwitted, O'Neill withdrew the measure. But where did that leave the contras? In confused limbo. The Senate has approved the President's aid request; the House has not. Michel announced that he intends to seek a "clean" vote on the funding by rounding up the required signatures of a majority of the House (218 members) to bring a bill directly...