Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...session bills traditional targets for pork-barrel amendments? "They're the last trains out of the station," explained Massachusetts Congressman James Shannon. Normal debate and decorum were all but abandoned. Some of the Senate amendments to the omnibus spending bill were handwritten. Even after the Senate voted on the amendments, few members knew what action had been taken. When the final 300-page spending bill emerged from the House and Senate conference committee, pasted together and hastily photocopied only 35 copies were circulated to the 435 House members voting on the measure Not that it mattered...
...omnibus bill drafted by Senate Democrats to combine the highway and public works programs and finance them not by raising the gasoline tax but by reducing the income tax cuts scheduled to go into effect July 1. This $17.9 billion plan will be offered as a substitute for the House Democrats' highway-gas tax program, and will be defeated, as its sponsors know perfectly well. Their aim is to tell constituents that they voted to create 650,000 jobs, a grossly inflated estimate...
...than any other single factor, with the possible exception of OPEC. If President Reagan convinces the other leaders that he understands that the American economy is not insulated from the rest of the Western world, that the size of the mortgage payments made by the man on a London omnibus is heavily influenced by New York and Washington, that he will take into account the implications of America's economic decisions on other countries and that he recognizes an obligation to coordinate policy as far as possible so that we do not harm one another, then by the modest...
Regardless of this opposition, the measure has a good chance of passage in the Senate, and the real battle will probably take shape in the House, where several representatives have proposed progressive alternatives to S. 1630. Most notably, John Conyers Jr., (D-Mich.) has introduced a liberal omnibus reform bill, H.R. 4711, which would provide the needed streamlining without violating the Constitution in the name of law and order...
David Hiller, special assistant to the Attorney General, said the Omnibus Immigration Control Act, which is currently being debated in Congress, would not only make it unlawful for employers knowingly to hire illegal aliens, but would also "substantially beef up the Immigration Service with desperately needed money and manpower...