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...total benefit; and delaying, during one year, the annual cost of living adjustment from July 1 to Oct. 1, which would save an estimated $3 billion. When the plan was first announced last spring, it immediately set off furious outcries that Reagan intended, as Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill acidly and inaccurately put it, "to balance the budget on the backs of Social Security recipients...
...Jones recalls a lunch one day with Speaker Tip O'Neill. After the session ended the doors were opened for the press, and a swarm of reporters, photographers and technicians engulfed the room. O'Neill looked at the miniature mob and sighed: "I'll never understand why people believe this budget business is so important." The Speaker surely knows...
...single yes or no vote on the spending cuts as a package. Congress agreed to such an all-or-nothing procedure when it set spending ceilings for fiscal 1982 in June. But the Democrats who control the House seem in no mood to go along again. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "We are going the regular road of normalcy as far as the budget is concerned." The White House does not have much time to change minds: the House last week voted a "continuing resolution" putting up money to keep the Government running-but only until...
...Democrats last week were naturally blaming the Republicans and Reaganomics for all of the financial troubles. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "They left here completely happy last month; they got exactly what they wanted. Now the onus is on them...
...over the years"--and he had energy. "We worked damn hard." Sullivan says, and it paid off when he won a two-year trip to Beacon Hill, a tenure marked by a controversy over the Provincetown steamship franchise and the opportunity, which Sullivan took, to back Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill for speaker of the Massachusetts House...