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...muscle to persuade the President to provide personal, up-front leadership on the issue. "It will be a treeless plain with every special-interest group in the country coming out unless Ronald Reagan stands behind us and gives us political cover," says John Sherman, spokesman for Illinois Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee...
...succeed unless the President puts all the force of his personality and office behind it." Democrats also insisted that if Reagan expects to get much in the way of either tax reform or spending cuts, he will have to swallow a revenue increase through tax increases. Said Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee: "This revenue-neutral business is pure fantasy...
Some Republican powers in the capital, believing that Reagan will be the winner, have left an intriguing idea on the White House doorstep. They would like to see Reagan have his Thanksgiving dinner at Camp David and invite such Democratic stalwarts as Louisiana Senator Russell Long, Illinois Congressman Danny Rostenkowski and Oklahoma Congressman James Jones. After the turkey and pumpkin pie, Reagan should take his goblet of Cabernet Sauvignon and ask everyone there to pledge himself to a great legislative crusade to reform the tax system, raise revenue, cut spending and banish those hideous deficits. For that kind of commitment...
What is Representative Dan Rostenkowski going to do with half a million dollars in leftover campaign money? Take it with him?" So asked a full-page ad in Chicago's Albany Park News, deep in the district of the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. "Who does Representative Mickey Edwards care more about? You and your vote? Or the auto dealers and their money?" So read another ad in the Ponca City, Okla., paper in Republican Edwards' district. Both ended with the same kicker, "Write...
...that end, the bill was artfully designed during months of negotiations between the White House, the Republican-controlled Senate and the Democratic-controlled House; it was put into final form by conferees led by Kansas Senator Robert Dole and Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski. Though the bill will have some effect on everybody who drinks whisky, smokes cigarettes, collects savings-bank interest or even makes a phone call, it raises revenues largely in ways that many individual taxpayers will never notice...