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When Congress returned from its Labor Day recess, the stage was set for a showdown. Early last week leaders of both parties were predicting privately that the House would sustain the veto, but support for the President slowly began to erode. Many members were convinced by the argument that the bill was not a "budget buster," as Reagan had charged; indeed, the $14.2 billion measure actually costs $2 billion less than the original Reagan proposal. Contended House Democratic Floor Leader Jim Wright of Texas: "The claim that the bill is over budget is as phony as a three-dollar bill...
...snorters. Jokes are traded in the streets, on TV talk shows, even on Capitol Hill. To most Congressmen, however, the allegations that some of them have had homosexual relations with teen-age pages or use cocaine are anything but funny. On their visits home over the Fourth of July recess, they got an earful from angry constituents. Says Arkansas Democrat Bill Alexander: "The people were outraged, incensed and repulsed...
With the summer recess only weeks away, three Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut got a jump on the opposition last week, with an old schoolyard activity, double dutch. (You know, when the two ropes are going in opposite directions.) Congressman William Ratchford, 48, tried his hand, er, feet, while colleagues Samuel Gejdenson, 34, and Barbara Kennedy, 46, waited their turns. "I could practice for the next 40 years and not be able to double jump," says Ratchford, who had difficulty with but one rope. It's safer inside the halls of Congress where the risks of getting tripped...
Shortly before the July 4 recess, however, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas got the Republican-controlled unit to approve, by a party-line vote of 11 to 9, a bill that would raise taxes for individuals and businesses by $21.1 billion in fiscal 1983, and by $98.6 billion over the next three years. President Reagan last week gave his blessing; White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the bill preserved "the basics of our economic program." Members of both parties expect that the Senate will pass the bill virtually intact shortly after it reconvenes this week...
Luckily, none of this talk distracted the players themselves. By the time the Sunnyside Park grass turned green the next March, the recess period conversation at Stillman Elementary School turned, as usual, to baseball. An not just to the game itself, but to the exciting prospect of new uniforms and a tight pennant race. No first fight no matter how ugly was going to kill Little League in Tenafly. The older folks could worry now and yell and scream later; no one pounding the base paths at Sunnyside had time to worry about such distractions...