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...nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that unless Congress acts to narrow it, the budget gap will widen steadily, reaching $263 billion in 1989. By that time, the national debt would hit $2.5 trillion. The annual interest bill on that debt, says the CBO, could amount to $214 billion and absorb 16% of all Government spending, up from...
...also outlined plans, regrettably much less specific and based on some rather iffy assumptions, to reduce federal spending in fiscal 1989 by $105 billion below the total now expected. His goal is to slash the federal deficit in fiscal 1989 to $86 billion, roughly a third of what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now projects...
...national religious leaders called a news conference to decry the "serious erosion" they detected in the principle of church-state separation. Disturbed for months by the school-prayer discussion and then alarmed by Reagan's Dallas speech, members of the group nevertheless phrased their joint statement in nonpartisan terms: "The state should not behave as if it were a church or synagogue. It should not do for citizens what, in their rightful free exercise of religion, they are perfectly capable of doing for themselves. For Government to intrude itself into religious practices, or to seek to impose certain beliefs...
...rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That unpleasant maxim seems to sum up the message of The Reagan Record, a 400-page study released last week by the Urban Institute, a respected nonpartisan think tank in Washington...
...others like them, are the first volleys in a new war against political action committees (PACs). Leading the PAC attack: Philip Stern, a Washington philanthropist and liberal Democratic activist who last September joined forces with New York Republican Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney, to form the nonpartisan "citizens against PACS." The group's goal is to pressure Congress into eliminating the corporate, labor union and special-interest PACs that make what Stern calls "ax-to-grind" contributions to candidates. Says he: "We want to make it uncomfortable for Congress to continue accepting PAC money...