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Even the law's drafters were sheepish about what amounted to an admission that Government lacked the wit or the courage or both to make its own decisions on spending. "It's a bad idea whose time has come," admitted New Hampshire Republican Senator Warren Rudman, one of the bill...
Cambridge liquor store owners welcomed the change. "It's going to be easier to identify fakes right away," said Gary Locke, the manager of the Harvard Provision Company. Locke said his store "is very tough" on fake identification cards and can recognize most fakes.
Some experts said that the absence of the Gramm-Rudman act will improve the quality of Congress' budget-making process. Without the protection of Gramm-Rudman's automatic provision, "there's no place to hide from hard budget decisions," said John Shattuck, Harvard vice president for government and community affairs...
The bill contains a fallback provision thatallows Congress to vote on a deficit-reductionpackage if the automatic feature was invalidated,and there is some speculation that Congress maycontinue to use Gramm-Rudman as an unofficialbudget guideline, experts said.
But what kind of bill will it be? The Senate and House measures have the same broad outline: each would lower and simplify income tax rates and offset the revenue loss by killing hundreds of exceptions and deductions. Yet they differ in dozens of all-important details. One example: the...