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...fighting those battles, Reagan faces severe problems of legislative strategy. Normally, Congress would vote separately on 13 appropriations bills providing money to run the Government through the next fiscal year. To avoid having his program hacked to bits during these votes, Reagan would like to present some kind of omnibus bill for a single yes or no vote on the spending cuts as a package. Congress agreed to such an all-or-nothing procedure when it set spending ceilings for fiscal 1982 in June. But the Democrats who control the House seem in no mood to go along again. Said...
...FAMILY. Republican Senator Roger Jepsen of Iowa has introduced an omnibus "Family Protection Act" that is something of a New Right wish list. Among many other provisions, it would exclude "discipline or corporal punishment methods applied by a parent" from the restrictions of child-abuse laws, deny federal funds to schools that do not allow "parental review of textbooks prior to their use in public school classrooms," prevent any school from using federal money to buy educational materials that present an overly progressive view of "the status role of men and women" and permit any schools receiving federal cash...
...spending for fiscal 1982, and more than $100 billion over the following two years. Since then, through the "reconciliation" process, 15 committees of the House and 16 of the Senate have labored to produce the most imposing piece of legislation ever considered by Congress: a 4,000-page omnibus budget bill that cuts back the scope and thrust of no fewer than 175 federally funded programs. That bill now goes to the floor of the two houses for possible amendment and debate...
...procedure, the benefits to the average taxpayer of huge budget cuts are clear, and the cost to any special interest is diluted. A vote against cash benefits for one's constituents can far more easily be defended as a regrettable part of a much broader bill Moreover, an omnibus bill of cuts tends to force special interest groups to compete with each other. Lobbyists clearly function best when they deal with one issue at a time. In fact some White House aides only half facetiously forecast that following the President's proposals on Feb. 18 for sharp spending...
...give its final approval to the creation of an Energy Mobilization Board, which is designed to cut through bureaucratic red tape and get the synfuel plants and other priority energy projects completed. Yet last week's action by the congressional conferees essentially completes work on the omnibus energy package that Carter proposed almost one year...