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...Ginsburg grappled with an array of aggressive interest groups and lobbyists over environmental regulations and rules concerning safety in the workplace; yet he won high marks from both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill for his adept handling of the job. "He can walk through land mines," says former OMB General Counsel Michael Horowitz. "He's careful, thoughtful and manages to bring people together...
Shattuck and Spence enlarged the scope of the 1985 report to chart the actions of different federal bodies using a variety of dissimilar laws as part of a government-wide trend toward more secrecy. Agencies ranging from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to the Department of Defense (DOD) to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have used legislation as different as the Paperwork Reduction Act and the Export Control Act to restrict the flow of information, the authors...
...next five years. The Administration seeks to cut target farm prices, which determine the size of subsidies, by 10% a year. It would also like to toughen up the rules on maximum payments to ensure that the bulk of the aid goes to farmers who need it most. Says OMB Chief Miller, alluding to the movie Country: "A lot of money goes to people who are not Jessica Lange on the farm...
Attorney General Edwin Meese is reported to be firmly opposed to Bowen's idea, and so is James Miller III, head of the Office of Management and Budget. "We have the standard reservation against more Government programs," says an OMB aide. "Let the private sector do it. Also, parts of the Bowen plan rely on new tax incentives. We have just closed major loopholes in tax reform, and now here come some new loopholes." To Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, Bowen's plan is "inconsistent with the Administration's policies to restrain the growth...
...made plenty of concessions already," Dale said in response to Harvard concerns that it might losemoney. The OMB planned last June to giveuniversities only 3 percent of grants for overheadcosts but compromised with the 3.6 percent rebate,Dale said...