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Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) and Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) announced that they would oppose the Tower nomination, with Pell's decision a disappointment to the White House, which had worked to win over the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Jimmy Carter had far more difficulty with another Democrat, the late Henry Jackson, than with most Republicans. Likewise, Ronald Reagan's diplomatic appointees encountered more opposition in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from the G.O.P.'s own Jesse Helms than from the soporifically temperate senior Democrat, Claiborne Pell. In 1985 Helms held up the confirmation of Reagan's Ambassador to China, Winston Lord, for more than three months, preventing him from being at his post when then Vice President George Bush visited Beijing...
...hoped that the Bush education budget might target additional funding for such vitally important programs as student assistance," Pell added...
Funding for Pell Grants, which provide direct federal assistance to college students, would increase 6 percent under Bush's plan, while funding for the College Work-Study program would remain the same. But spending for Guaranteed Student Loans would be cut by 7 percent...
Federal Funding For Major Student Aid Programs (In millions of dollars) Appropriation FY 1988 Appropriation FY 1989 Proposed FY 1990 Pell Grants 4260.4 4483.9 4740.0 Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL) 2565.0 3174.4 2962.5 Work-Study 588.2 610.1 610.1 Supplemental Grants 408.4 438.0 452.9 Perkins Loans 210.6 205.5 22.0 Income Contingent Loans...