All-Purpose Budget Story, Vol. II
Easterbrook, Gregg
All Purpose News Story, Volume II Budget Impasse Snarls Congress, White House By Gregg Easterbrook Special to TWM WASHINGTON -Once again, Congress and the White House failed yesterday to...
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...All Purpose News Story, Volume II Budget Impasse Snarls Congress, White House By Gregg Easterbrook Special to TWM WASHINGTON -Once again, Congress and the White House failed yesterday to reach agreement on administration plans for dramatic cuts in the federal program...
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...Soon many congressmen leapt in with their own budget proposals, hoping to (14) . Complicating matters is the multilayered budget process, where __ committees and ___..__ subcommittees must vote on every proposal...
...and defended them in a nationally televised address...
...She was caught only when one of her reports turned out to be useful...
...Once, (9) . And that's why we must reduce the size of the federal government...
...when sent up to Congress...
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...Then newspapers discovered that a related effect of the cuts would be minor reductions in subsidies to (IO) and other programs benefiting mainly the well- off...
...10) fur storage facilities executive heliports mobile telephone services ( 11 ) second-home loans garage vouchers the Faculty club rehab program (12) “How Our Half Lives” "Jeffrey: Portrait of a Stockbroker" "And Who Will Water Their Lawns...
...2) cash in this old campaign fund cameras in this old hearing room a flask in this old hip pocket (3) Kellogg-Briand Pact Gadsden Purchase Continental Congress (4) vast but unspecified savings sharp cutbacks in programs for more ringing promises (5) Department of Sober Reassessments Catalog Store Regulatory Commission Historic Airport Preservation Trust (6) observe a holiday report a fire switch to Daylight Savings Time (7) superfluous civil servants crooked corporations featherbedded unions avoid taking the blame retire to lobbying job (9) an able-bodied black teenager received an offer to become director of marketing for a major multinational corporation...
...the country has operated without a budget since (3) , The cuts...
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...In anger and frustration, he has become Japanese...
...a welfare mother in Chicago bought vodka and T-bone steaks with money she acquired by fraudulently obtaining more than 2.000 defense consulting contracts...
...When negotiations broke down last night...
...revision, and rider at every stage...
...and had campaigned with ringing promises of (4) . Moreover, a General Accounting Office study had just revealed that the (5) ,which administers the program, was so top-heavy and inefficient it took six months to But then an intensive lobbying campaign began...
...I would give you her name' but that would violate national security regulations...
...House and Senate conferees had been unable even to agree on (16) . To averta shutdown of the federal government, they ate expected tomorrow to pass a 30-day emergency budget measure, clearing the way to (17) next month...
...It was never my intention to balance the budget on the backs of (13) ," he explained...
...But this lad had to turn the job down because federal regulations required him to finish high school...
...Many congressmen felt deeply moved by reminders of their sacred moral obligation to (8) . The President seemed unconcerned with any hardships his cuts might create...
...Nearly every congressman was on record as opposed to government spending...
...a farmer in Nebraska was paid federal subsidies not to accept other federal subsidies for not growing crops on his land...
...After the collapse of an all-night bargaining session on Capitol Hill, one prominent congressman vowed to resist the cuts "as long as there is life in these old bones and (2) _"Without compromise, there can be no hope of passing the new federal budget...
...seemed likely to pass easily...
...Middle-class homeowners were distressed to learn the cuts would also affect them, through reductions in federal assistance for ( I I ) . CBS News dramatized their plight in a much-watched documentary called (12) . Quickly the President softened his stand...
...Special-interest lobbyists warned congressmen the cuts would impose great suffering on (7) , especially (7) in their districts...
...Let me tell you a little story.'' he said...
...Thus he was forced by the government, against his will, to stay in business...
...13) people whose names have Roman numerals people whose houses have Roman columns tennis instructors (14) grab headlines protect the weak protect the strong (15) Subcommittee on Bridge Abutments and Pancreas Research Special Permanent Select Subcommittee on County Fairs Subcommittee on Asides and Musings of the Quotable Non Sequitur Committee (16) how many peeks in a bushel what is the capital of Maine which door to leave by (17) start all over again deadlock on a completely finally pass the 1963 budget...
...As the OMB director admitted in testimony before the House (15) , "Nobody really knows what's going on with all these amendments...
Vol. 14 • September 1982 • No. 7
