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...trans-Pacific call was evidence that not all members of Congress use the Easter recess, which ended this week, to sound out their constituents at home. Yet as TIME correspondents tracked some of the many lawmakers who do, the voters seemed to be giving them a fairly consistent message. The gist: most citizens view the recuperating President as a highly likable person; his priority in attacking inflation by curbing federal spending coincides neatly with their own sense of the nation's most urgent problem. But they are not at all sure that his specific spending cuts are distributed fairly...
Court-appointed mediated Charles M. Haar, Brandeis Professor of Law, said yesterday during a recess that the judge would not impose a specific plan because it would be difficult for the court to administer...
...that its budget is untouchable. No Administration has ever made such demands, and no Congress has ever accepted such demands." Only one Democrat, archconservative Phil Gramm of Texas, sided with the twelve Republicans in support of the President. Thus when Congress broke on Friday for a two-week Easter recess, the President's figures had been challenged by the budget committees of both legislative chambers...
...reason for the lack of opposition, as was learned by the many Congressmen and Senators who spent the Lincoln's Birthday recess with their constituents, is that the home folk share Reagan's belief that the Government cannot keep piling up deficits. Democratic Senator David Pryor warned constituents in Arkansas to expect severe cuts in the budget for the Farmers Home Administration, which extends credit to rural people who have trouble borrowing elsewhere. Their answer, according to Pryor: "Inflation is our worst enemy. If that's what it takes, we'll support it even...
...after a recess of just ten minutes, Reagan takes a seat in the Cabinet Room for what has been the daily "budget working group" session for the past three weeks. In these meetings, Budget Director David Stockman and heads of Cabinet departments have been going over spending cuts, agency by agen cy and sometimes project by project. Reagan begins the session on a light note...