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...confrontation during a short ceremony in the Oval Office two weeks ago, when the Speaker challenged the President's criticism of "make-work" measures. O'Neill made an emotional pitch for aiding jobless workers with useful public works programs. As the discussion grew heated, Budget Director David Stockman interjected that the two leaders were not all that far apart...
...certainly something we should look into," Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, amiably agreed when the Joint Economic Committee pressed him over the possibility of including more money for "soup kitchens." Responding to questions about adding a "reasonable" relief program to the package, Budget Director David Stockman told Senators: "I'm sure there is room in the budget...
...already decided on a pay freeze for nonuniformed federal employees. He told Weinberger, "Look, we can't go up there and cut everybody else's increases without cutting military pay." Even at that last moment, the President gave no orders. Instead, as silence fell over the group, Stockman penciled the prospective savings from a military pay freeze into a draft budget document and, said one White House aide, "that...
...Republicans). The final days of deliberation had all the hallmarks of shuttle diplomacy. A coterie of four prominent commission members, Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, Moynihan, Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York and former Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball, huddled repeatedly with Baker, Budget Director David Stockman and other Administration officials to hammer out a package of compromises. Half a block away, at the commission's offices, five conservative members, headed by Republican Senator William Armstrong of Colorado, chairman of the Senate Social Security Subcommittee, held sessions aimed at countering the emerging accord, which, they charged, relied...
...Budget Committee in 1981, Gramm assured party leaders that he would support a Democratic budget plan. Four months later, he not only co-sponsored the President's budget plan against the committee alternative but, charged the Democrats, also fed reports on confidential Democratic strategy sessions to David Stockman, Reagan's Director of the Office of Management and Budget. "In any army," commented one Democratic House leader, "he'd have been shot at sunrise...