Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
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Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
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Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Paul Duke introduces program: Reagan sends another austerity budget to Congress, this year, Congress attacks it. Linda Wertheimer - Congress decides to reinstate funds cut from last budget. Cokie Roberts - Members of Congress try to scapegoat Federal Reserve for bad economy.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
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Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Paul Duke and Cokie Roberts in chamber of House Budget Committee, scene of the upcoming battle. Discussion of potentially long year for Reagan s agenda. Budget calls for biggest deficit in history, domestic programs get cut, but defense gets lots more money.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
President Ronald Reagan in Oval Office signing the budget points to bound copy of document, jokes That will be weekend reading for Tip O'Neill. I ll send the pen with it because he may want to make some further cuts in it.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Tip O Neill (D - Massachusetts) walking to microphones outside White House. You know genuinely, I like the fella. He s got a great personality, tells a great Irish story, but the truth of the matter is I believe that he has forgotten his roots and his has associated with the country club style of people who love to say, Social Security is wrong. If I were to invest the amount of money I pay in Social Security, at the age of 65 I d be a wealthy man. All that is true. What s the purpose of these programs? The purpose of these programs are to bring from the depths of despair and try to move people along - to try to help middle America. Shots of O'Neill with reporters.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Jim Wright (D - Texas, Majority Leader) with reporters outside White House. We re going to open the door and invite them back in. We re just going to love them to death.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Shots of a meeting of House Democrats Boll weevils . Shot of David Stockman, Director of Office of Management and Budget, entering the meeting with a pile of documents.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Phil Gramm (D - Texas) I think it is a clear consensus that the deficit is too big and something s got to be done about it.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Charles Stenholm (D - Texas), I think it s safe to say that the CDF (aka Conservative Democratic Forum) does not agree with every i that s been dotted and every t that s been crossed in this particular budget. We d agree in the general direction we re moving, in the valid claim that we are moving down in the expenditure area.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
A meeting of moderate Republicans. Voiceover - these members concerned about the budget hurting their Northeastern constituents-coalition of 1981 breaking down.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Ralph Regula (R - Ohio), I think there will be more difficulty putting together the coalitions this year than existed last year because there will be regimentation within coalitions. Plus you have the added factor of re-districting across the nation which impacts on individuals as opposed to being part of a coalition. And the fact that it s an election year.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Wes Watkins (D - Oklahoma), Conservative, moderate Democrats are deeply concerned about the size of the deficits. I think the Gypsy Moths, the Republicans are concerned with some of the programs that are serving their areas of the country. I think with that developing, you re going to see a new mix, a new coalition, in whatever budget process we end up with. I m not sure we will end up with the same budget that s being proposed by the administration by the end of the summer.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Charles Stenholm (D - Texas) taking seat at witness table for Committee hearing. Various general shots of members in the Committee meeting.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Jamie Whitten (D - Mississippi) compares Reaganomics to the policy of Herbert Hoover which started the Great Depression. I think this issue is bigger than Democratic and Republican politics. I think this issue is bigger than you and me. And if you don t believe it, just read the history of that Depression, which started with the same polices which you are following. And it s a matter of record.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Silvio Conte (R - Massachusetts) says that Reaganomics is going too far, the priorities are all wrong. We all want a reduced deficit. We all want to control inflation. We all want to put people back to work. But I can t agree on the priorities of this budget. The cuts from the non-defense budget are too deep. And I ask the question, can we find a common ground?
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Voiceover no Republicans on Appropriations Committee were enthusiastic about the Reagan Budget. Various general shots of members in the Committee meeting.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Ken Robinson (R - Virginia), I would like to have you advise me as to how to best defend this defense budget which you have submitted to us.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Various general shots of members in the Committee meeting.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Representative Joseph Addabbo (D - New York) Chairman of House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Take 100 million dollars and give it to the people and then you ll have national defense in this country. Not when the people have to be hurt to further the waste that s in defense.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
David Stockman, Director of Office of Management and Budget, taking seat to testify to Joint Economic Committee. Last year the Congress rounded-down to the next lowest whole dollar Social Security checks. Representative Henry Reuss (D - Wisconsin) says "Last year's Congress was one of the worst in history so I wouldn t want to generalize from what they did. I ll just give you my view which is that the rounding benefits of poor people down to the lower whole dollar isn t nice and really a government of the People shouldn t do it. To the extent that Congress is a party to this act of meanness, shame on Congress.
Lawmakers - February 11, 1982 - Budget Debate
Paul Duke and Cokie Roberts discussion of the coming budget battle, new mood in Congress not to go along with Reagan s plans. Reaganomics highly unpopular.