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...complicated roll-call votes designed to offer political cover to legislators from both parties, the House Democratic leadership muscled its members into providing 150 of the 153 votes opposed to tinkering with the Constitution. The showdown ballot was on an amendment by conservative Texas Democratic Congressman Charles Stenholm that would have required a three- fifths vote of Congress for the government to engage in deficit spending; implementation would have been shrewdly delayed until 1997, when Bush and many current legislators would not have to deal with the resulting budgetary and legal chaos. Small wonder that Democratic Congressman Mike Synar ridiculed...
...favored by the White House, would have limited earned income tax credits for child care to a mere $200 to $300 a year; it was defeated by a vote of 285 to 140. The White House then tried to rally support for a compromise devised by Texas Democrat Charles Stenholm, which would have prohibited the Government from setting standards for child-care centers and personnel. It went down, 230 to 195. The bill's supporters did agree to one conservative demand, deleting a ban on federal funds for church-run centers, which now provide about one-third of all child...
...House debated the Democratic plan, Rep. Charles Stenholm, (D-Tex.) charged that it would have placed control of a $14 million fund to aid children who are victims of the civil war in the hands of the leftist Nicaraguan government, prompting an angry response from House Speaker Jim Wright...
...days before his TV address, Reagan called Texas Democrat Charles Stenholm into the Oval Office to ask for his support. Stenholm agreed and pointed out that one way the President could win some Southern Democrats would be to stop opposing a peanut-crop allotment scheme. Taking his advice, Reagan later assured the ten-man Georgia delegation that the matter was not peanuts to him. When former President (and sometime Peanut Farmer) Jimmy Carter called Congressman Bo Ginn, it was too late. Carter was Ginn's 405th caller that day -and only the fifth to support the Democratic bill. Ginn...
...both parties. Republicans are trying to forge alliances with them while simultaneously threatening an all-out effort to bag many of their seats in 1982. As for Democratic leaders, they have been put on notice that the price of C.D.F. support is a much more conservative stance. Says Stenholm: "We need to change the direction of our party, or we will soon be a minority in the House...