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...advocated by conservative thinkers such as Economist Milton Friedman, former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon and William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review. What is new is that the flat tax is starting to gather strong bipartisan support. Its sponsors on Capitol Hill now include Congressman Leon Panetta, a liberal Democrat from California, as well as Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. The liberal Washington Post touted it in an editorial last month...
...request last year to lump many domestic programs into block grants, a much less ambitious plan than the current one to turn back responsibility and money to the states, foundered on the rocks of the committee system, where it encountered resistance from both parties. As Democrat Leon Panetta of California points out: "The committee chairmen, who are the fathers of these social programs, will not be at all eager to see them terminated...
...need him as part of the team," Senator Paul Laxalt, the President's confidant, significantly did not. Moreover, a huge question had been raised as to whether Stockman can continue to be effective. Certainly, he has become an irresistible target for Democrats on Capitol Hill. Observed Leon Panetta, a key Democrat on the House Budget Committee: "He was knowledgeable. But now the first question will be: 'Is this just what you're saying, or do you really believe it?' " Insisted New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "It was not just an error of good intentions...
Even before Reagan made his televised threat. Democrats were having second thoughts about trying to get by with unrealistic cuts that would later be reversed. Congressman Leon Panetta of California, a member of the Budget Committee, telephoned Perkins in Kentucky to warn that the Republicans, as they had with the bipartisan budget resolution, might be able to sway enough conservative Democrats to pass their own budget plan. Democrats decided to reverse some of their cuts. Perkins called his committee Democrats into caucus and chose to restore $1.75 billion for such programs as school impact aid, student loans and Head Start...
...Languages. Glazer provides a useful civics lesson in how difficult it is to stop bureaucratic action once it has been set in motion. When President Nixon was making headlines for his supposed slowdown of desegregation in the South, just the opposite was happening, says Glazer. Bureaucrats directed by Leon Panetta, head of the Office of Civil Rights, ignored Nixon and kept pressure on the South. While the end was desirable, the means were dangerous. Panetta even withheld relief to noncomplying Southern school districts in the wake of Hurricane Camille in 1969. Writes Glazer: "There is much to be learned about...