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...Tip O'Neill, for the comeback of the year...
...economic times. When the matter first came up last week, the House voted 2 to 1 to raise its pay 15%, to $69,800. But then the lawmakers got cold feet: a move to revoke the increase was barely defeated when the House deadlocked, 208 to 208. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who usually does not vote, cast a ballot for the raise...
...political arsenic in the form of hefty tax increases on young and middle-aged workers, combined with limits on the future benefits to be paid to aged pensioners. The commission does not want to recommend such politically unpalatable steps unless it can get some signal from President Reagan and Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House, that they will support the findings. Commission Member William Armstrong, a Republican Senator from Colorado, explains: "If we come up with a solution that is not precleared with at least those two figures ... it will just get shot down about five...
...moment, however, such doubts are being publicly brushed aside. The tone of the session was set last week by House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who is making a remarkable comeback. O'Neill was so badly outmaneuvered by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 that Republicans openly laughed at him on the floor of the House, and not a few Democrats snickered behind his back. But the recession and the midterm election that transformed the nominal Democratic House majority into a real one have made his liberalism seem more relevant. O'Neill last week told some 240 House Democrats...
...white illustration. In his third work, Ben's Dream (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95), the pictorial style far outdistances the story. Ben falls asleep and abruptly finds himself awash in a second flood. Only the tops of things show: the head and shoulders of the Statue of Liberty, the tip of Big Ben, the peak of Mount Rushmore, where the bust of George Washington finally wakes the boy up. Reading this dream is a little like watching a musical and whistling the scenery. Van Allsburg's narrative is a device worn with overuse. But the drawings are the stuff...