Word: regarded
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...ranks. Only rarely has the House taken formal notice of a colleague's misdeeds-and then, at worst, it has merely censured the offender verbally or, in a few cases, stripped him of seniority and committee chairmanships. This fraternal forbearance stemmed partly from the Representatives' clubby regard for one another and partly from their belief that in a democracy, voters have the right to be represented by whomever they wish-even a crook. The era of tolerance apparently ended last week...
...start of the fiscal year, Congress had not approved a single one of 13 regular appropriations bills. The House did say that the Defense Department could spend $157 billion before Sept. 30, 1981, an increase of $19 billion that both Democrats and Republicans regard as popular with most voters, but the Senate did not even get around to taking up that measure...
...most serious consequence could be the breakdown of the streamlined budget process that House and Senate leaders proudly enacted only six years ago. This would mean a return to the days when Congress voted appropriations for specific departments and agencies and passed tax bills with little regard for the overall consequences to the federal deficit and U.S. economy. Indeed, some Senators and Representatives would not be sorry to see that happen. They resent the authority that the budget committees have acquired-in theory, at least. But as last week's performance showed, the House and Senate are far from...
Since 1949 the tiny F.D.P., whose members are mostly middle class and professional, has been in the crucial swing role. By siding again with the Social Democrats instead of the conservatives, the Free Democrats aimed not only to block the election of Strauss, whom they regard as an extremist, but also to help Schmidt neutralize the left wing of his SPD. Said F.D.P. Chairman Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "Our mission is to ensure government from the center, not from the fringes, left or right...
...stop the spread of atomic bombs-and possibly could allow just the opposite. At least, the Administration argued, the U.S. could be sure that the uranium supplied to Tarapur was not being reprocessed into plutonium for bombs. But if the U.S. did not supply additional fuel, India might regard the 1963 agreement as canceled, close Tarapur as well as its other reactors to inspection, and do whatever it pleased with the spent U.S. uranium already there. Thus a turndown on the sale might speed up rather than head off a nuclear arms race between India and its archenemy Pakistan...