Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just before airtime, Wright inserted a phrase responding to Reagan's exhortation "Let's go to work." Congress has already been at work for three weeks, Wright replied, and in that time has, over Administration objections, advanced legislation for cleaner water, completion of the interstate highway system and shelter for the homeless. None of the measures were "budget busters," said Wright, though three days later Reagan vetoed the water bill for budgetary reasons...
...Wright scrawled, in a last-minute retort to Reagan's stand against "protectionism," a reference to the Democratic push for a trade bill that threatens higher tariffs as a way to tackle the nation's trade imbalance. The Speaker insisted that the goal was reciprocity, doing unto other countries what they are doing to the U.S. The Administration's policies, he said, are ballooning the trade deficit, putting Americans out of work and making "junk metal and scrap paper" the leading exports from the Port of New York...
...Wright scolded the President for other policies that revealed a "gap between rhetoric and reality." Just three months after signing a bill to fight drugs, Reagan "wants to cut that pledge in half." Wright described Reagan's proposal to cut education funds for the next fiscal year by 28% as "unilateral disarmament...
...Wright made no mention of Iranscam. That was left to Byrd, who said that the dealings created a "gathering sense of mistrust," and added, "Bold actions can succeed, but they must be based on carefully considered and sound judgment." He left no doubt that the Democrats will hold Reagan's feet to the fire on Iranscam. But he also said, the "last two years of the Reagan presidency need not be a period of discord. A weakened President serves...
...looks do much to cast their party as the face of the future. But their very lack of New Age video appeal made them seem convincing as leaders of a Congress that will assert itself as an equal branch of Government. Now they face their real challenge, which, as Wright said of the President, involves not rhetoric but reality. Can they present an alternative to Reagan's agenda that is not merely a call for more spending programs financed through higher taxes and dangerous cuts in defense...