Word: congress
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...social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
With only 17 hours to spare, Congress passed and George Bush signed a bill lifting the U.S. debt ceiling to $3.12 trillion, thus averting a default. Granted authority to draw on an additional $250 billion of other people's money, the Treasury is again able to pay the Government's bills...
...games over. In a feisty mood, Bush urged reporters last week to go after Congress for thwarting his and the nation's will. He vowed to leave in place automatic spending cuts that will trim $16.1 billion from the $1.2 trillion 1990 budget unless Congress on its own cuts about $14 billion from the deficit without resorting to "gimmicks." Unmentioned was the fact that most of the existing gimmicks were first proposed by the Administration...
Mitchell and House Speaker Tom Foley have vowed to pass a "clean" budget bill, unadorned by amendments, before Congress adjourns around Thanksgiving. A veto would leave the automatic cuts in force at least until next year, indiscriminately slicing muscle as well as fat from most Government programs...
Cutler's boss is trying to get the message out that hard times are on the way. Lee Iacocca, who visited Washington last week to lobby Congress for a tougher, more focused U.S. trade and industrial policy toward Japan, said in a recent interview with the trade publication Automotive News, "They don't know there is a war on. They don't have the foggiest idea. Am I saying the worst is yet to come? I don't think we've bottomed out yet. That is what I am saying." No one in Detroit would contest his argument. The outcome...