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...conventional uranium for at least 50 years," says Jan Beyea, a physicist on the staff of the Audubon Society. "Certainly there is no urgent rush to get into breeder technology." President Jimmy Carter, worried about the proliferation of plutonium, tried to stop Clinch River. Even Budget Director David Stockman, while he was a Michigan Congressman, opposed Clinch River, contending that the Government should not underwrite nuclear development for the private sector by building the reactor. He called the project "totally incompatible with our free-market approach to energy policy...
...Stockman argued within the White House for denying Clinch River further funds, but was overruled. What sealed the Administration's commitment to the reactor was geography-and politics. The plant is to be built in the home state of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. Already 458 Baker constituents work on the project, and there is the promise of 4,000 more jobs for the seven-year duration of construction. "In large measure," says one congressional aide, "the Reagan support is due to the fact that Baker is for it." Yet Baker barely had to enter the fray. Admits...
Equally important, in the furious view of the losing Democrats, Reagan had taken a serious stride toward that old congressional bugaboo, the "Imperial Presidency." Reagan raised that fear by getting the House to substitute budget proposals drafted by Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman for those worked out by its own committees. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill after the vote: "I've never seen anything like this. Does this mean that any time the President is interested in a piece of legislation, he merely sends it over?" Last week at least, the answer seemed...
...ommittee package. A Reagan aide called it "a perfecting amendment," dealing only with the appropriations made by the seven most recalcitrant House committees, including Education and Labor. The Republican amendment proposes an additional $5.5 billion in real spending cuts in fiscal 1982 to make up in part for what Stockman claims is more than $7 billion in "phony" reductions in the House bill. Entitlement programs would be the target of the largest slashes, such as further revising food-stamp eligibility to save $1.2 billion and limiting cost of living adjustments for federal retirees to once a year, saving $900 million...
...comprehensive alternative that can hold their House majority in line, have done little more than salvage a few programs and obstruct a handful of Reagan proposals. But they did have one small consolation last week. Because of the increased work load of the Office of Management and Budget, Stockman asked for a 12% increase in appropriations for his agency. Said liberal Democrat Edward Roybal of California, "Children will be left hungry, the aged left weary and cold, the truly needy wanting, and Mr. Stockman thinks his OMB's duties should take priority." A House Appropriations subcommittee denied the request...