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...people's homes, filling potholes. The Speaker's aides insist that the money can be pumped out within 90 to 120 days. Many Congressmen doubt that it can, or that the bill will create the targeted 300,000 jobs in any case. But, says California Democrat Leon Panetta, "based on symbolism alone, it will pass...
...future bill. Administration lobbyists also passed the word that the President would not fight for his extra $2 billion in defense funds in a subsequent measure. With those pledges, however, Reagan undercut his argument for vetoing the measure in the first place. "Why this charade?" asked Democrat Leon Panetta of California. "Why go through this process...
...converts to the Democratic cause. Aside from a resolution simplifying the income tax system, the platform is a model of artful dodges and hedges. "There seems to be a feeling that our good spirits and Reagan's problems will be enough, but they are not," observed Congressman Leon Panetta of California. "We've got to come up with bold new alternatives...
...neoliberals are also called high-tech Democrats, for their emphasis on steering the economy away from troubled industries like automobiles and steel to high-technology firms specializing in microchips and computers.* They include Senators Gary Hart of Colorado, Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressmen Panetta and Richard Gephardt of Missouri...
...outcome just might be no budget resolution at all. Says California Democrat Leon Panetta, chief drafter of the bipartisan moderates' budget: "There is a fifty-fifty chance that nothing will pass." In that case, Congress would have to finance the Government by a series of continuing resolutions, a prescription for administrative chaos since no department would be sure how much money would be available to it, or pass spending bills piecemeal, with no overall guidelines...