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...official at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington said yesterday that Richard S. Schweiker, secretary for the department, would submit a nomination to President Reagan "within two weeks." The NIH distributes most of its $3.6 billion annual budget towards medical research...
...shelve any major reforms of the all-but-bankrupt Social Security system as part of his second round of budget cuts. He had hoped to confront the issue head-on during his televised speech. Instead, he merely recommended again changes that Health and Hu man Services Secretary Richard Schweiker and OMB Director David Stockman had formulated and that the Senate had rejected last May, and proposed a few palliatives to shore up the system for the time being. Reagan also asked that any major changes in Social Security be studied by a 15-member bipartisan task force - five members each...
...sections of his speech dealing with Social Security had been hurriedly inserted that afternoon, and the moment of delivery was decidedly un-Reagan-esque. Though Reagan asked the nation's 36 million Social Security recipients "to listen very carefully" to his proposals, his k presentation was surprisingly unpersua-Schweiker mullssive. Backpedaling furiously, the President emphasized that he was not walking away from the problem, but that his Social Security plan was not a part of the overall budget package. Noting that "there has been a great deal of misinformation and for that matter pure demagoguery on the subject," Reagan...
...Lowell Weicker of Connecticut wanted to protect important categorical grants for health and education. The President talked with Hatch and Stafford by telephone from Camp David on Sunday to see if an accommodation could be reached. The following night, Hatch, Weicker, Stafford, Budget Director David Stockman, Health Secretary Richard Schweiker and Education Secretary Terrell Bell assembled in Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker's office for a marathon bargaining session...
...precipitous and unfair" reductions in benefits for early retirees and any package of cuts that is more severe than necessary to keep the system solvent in the short run. Congressman Claude Pepper of Florida, chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging, told Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker, "You have chosen a solution that violates the sacred word of our President and our Government and our Congress to the people." The White House backtracked quickly, releasing a letter from Reagan assuring congressional leaders that "this Administration is not wedded to any single solution." Reagan called for a bipartisan...