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...momentum from victory in the House on the budget resolution has enhanced his clout on Ihe Hill for the lime being. The debate within Reagan's inner circle is how far he should push that advantage. Secret task forces have been assembled by David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to examine more of the so-called sacred cows of federal spending. The mission: lo find additional billions to cut, permanent devices to restrain the federal hand...
Produced with financial assistance from the National Endowment of the Humanities, Image consitutes as good an argument as any for NEH's protection from the sabre of David Stockman. If President Reagan has any doubts about NEH's importance, he should see this film...
...Stockman went to Washington in 1970 as an aide to John Anderson, then MIMS an Illinois Congressman. He later became director of the Republican Conference in the House, and in 1976 he was himself elected to Congress from Michigan. Over ten years, with the help of a handful of aides, he analyzed every significant governmental issue. The Stockman summaries became a crucial part of G.O.P. strategy. Each committee report-some running to hundreds of pages -was read and boiled down to a few sheets. "We worked a lot of nights into the wee hours," says Stockman with a wan smile...
Strange things showed up. Subcommittees dominated by special interests issued lopsided reports that hid their prejudices behind clouds of turgid prose. They were, concluded Stockman, designed to discourage understanding. The cargo preference bill report in 1974 was a panegyric to the glories of forcing more oil imports into American ships. The inflationary impact from the higher rates was largely an untold story. Stockman unraveled it and alerted the Republicans. Though the bill passed, President Ford killed it with a pocket veto...
Sometimes even Stockman could not get through the fog. He grappled one night until 4 a.m. with a bill affecting the federal employee retirement system and gave up. He could not understand it, and he doubts that the people who prepared it could either. It is Stockman's view that the Social Security program is now technically so dense that no one in the Government comprehends it totally. The information crisis is most acute on the Hill, where, in Stockman's view, "there is not much reward for accumulating knowledge." The more pressing concern is political survival. Also...