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Re: Presidential/ Congressional budget negotiations. (1 pp.)
07/16/90
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Dan Me.
Close Hold
It is important to address the budget negotiations and budget
deficit problem and the President's role head-on.
Basic strategy should be to put and keep the ball deep in the
Democrat's/Congress' court. Keep the pressure on them to come
up with their part of the deal -- "I did my part, now it's
their turn. If -- of the President's statement, remind them that
the Democratic leadership agreed to it in the meeting and
supported it later that day publicly.
The object is to get the press and the public to put the heat
on the Democrats, to get serious about the negotiations and
what they are willing to do on domestic spending,
entitlements, and process reform -- the tough stuff for them.
Characterize the issue as critical to the health of our
national economy, the welfare of the country and one that will
have a direct effect on many individual citizens now and in
the future. Don't use language that lets the press
characterize this simply as a wrestling match between
Republicans and Democrats.
Use the word "Congress" if you want to be a little less
political and the word "Democrats" if you want to be more
political.
The five points I used in Chicago are attached which is
generally what I think the President should do.
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7
Let me stop right here for a moment and address what I
know is on a lot of your minds as you came to Chicago.
That is the President's statement two weeks ago regarding
the budget deficit and a potential increase in tax
revenue. I think there are several points that need to
be made and kept in mind as we think about the
implications of the President's statement.
First,
the President knows that good government is
good politics and that there is no issue where
that is more true than the importance of a
strong growing economy. We have had 92 months
of economic growth under Republican
administrations. There would be no greater
threat to the country, and to us politically,
than to have that growth end.
The President believes that the budget deficit
is the one thing that could threaten that
economic growth and that is the issue that
needs to be solved and solved this year.
Second, the President is the person who supplied the
leadership to start these negotiations, has now
taken the leadership to get them off the dime
7/12/90
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and into a serious mode, and he will be the
person who supplies the leadership to
ultimately get a solution to this problem.
Third, the President was dealing with political
reality. He said in his press conference two
weeks ago that his convictions about taxes had
not changed at all, but recognized it would be
necessary to have some tax revenue increases
in order to get a deficit agreement. Remember,
he has said time and again that if Congress
would give him a line item veto he would be
happy to take responsibility for reducing the
deficit and would do so without raising taxes.
However, the political reality is that no
package can be agreed on or get passed without
agreement of the Democrats who control
Congress.
Fourth, the President has put the ball deep in the
Democrats territory. He has done the one thing
that the Democrats have been saying he needed
to do for over a year in order to get serious
budget negotiations moving. Remember, the
Democrat leaders last week agreed and supported
the statement that not only included the
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phrase, 'Tax Revenue Increases' which is what
they wanted, but it included domestic spending
cuts, entitlement reforms and budget process
reform. Now the ball is in their court and as
they come back to Washington, I think we will
find the voters interested in what they are
going to bring to the table in those areas.
Fifth,
I know George Bush well and there is not going
to be a deal that is not a good deal for the
economy and the country. And that in the end
will give this party a very strong record to
run on.
Poll we had done:
President Bush said earlier this week that he and the
leaders of Congress agreed that a solution tot he budget
deficit problem would have to include tax revenue
increases, major cuts in domestic spending, reduction in
the growth of entitlements, cuts in defense spending, and
budget process reform. Do you approve or disapprove of
the statement President Bush made?
Approve
58%
Disapprove
31
7/12/90
8/1/90
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WEDNESDAY
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
A Baltic Sea
Of Leaders Asks
By
To-ga! To-ga!
America's Help
It's that tin
people are head
Pity Washington's poor budget
lier efforts to cut by 10% and then 5%.
By AMITY SHLAES
ting their lives
summiteers. While they're stuck de-
Cheeky Republican Bob Walker of
How long is 100 days? Long enough for
safe haven.
a country to make a revolution. Long
But even if 1
bating how much more to tax a six-
Pennsylvania then moved to cut
enough too for the Soviet Union to lock that
the perils of 00
pack of Budweiser, their fraternity
spending by .0000000002%, or $19.90,
country inside its crumbling empire.
vessels, there
brothers in Congress are throwing the
but he lost too!
That at least is the view of a clutch of
reach their go
biggest party of the summer.
What are the Members protecting?
leaders from newly elected Baltic govern-
merchant or n:
Despite all the wailing about the
The Heritage Foundation's Scott
ments passing through Washington this
be allowed to (
"deficit," the spending taps on Capitol
Hodge has compiled a list that reads
summer. The statesmen from Lithuania,
sia, Macao an
Hillare wide open. The campus police
like logrolling in our time: $2.85 mil-
Latvia and Estonia talk of the disintegra-
them first asyl
tion of Mr. Gorbachev's power. They talk
or Thailand, th
(they of the "no new tax" pledge) are
lion for a fish farm in Stuttgart, Ark.;
about independence declarations they have
away and push
nowhere in sight, SO the revelers have
$8 million for the U.S. Institute of
made in the past 100 days and hope that
they reach Hor
abandoned all self-restraint. There
Peace; $100,000 for an Army Corps of
their mission to America will speed them
trary distinctio
hasn't been anything quite like this
Engineers investigation of Waikiki
along the road to full independence. But
litical deprivat
since John Belushi screamed "toga"
Beach (every fraternity brother's
they also fear that American help won't
out" as people
at Faber College. The Bush Adminis-
dream); $8.5 million for a high-occu-
come in time to stop a Moscow that still
life," as one B:
tration seems not to want to spoil the
pancy-vehicle traffic demonstration
controls their borders from squeezing them
sequence, they
fun by pointing any fingers. Hapless
project in Virginia; and $50,000 for the
back into the Soviet order. Some of them
to Vietnam, a
national bicycle program manager.
even think that by fall-100 days from
than death.
taxpayers are left asking where all
now-Soviet troops might turn Baltic inde-
This patheti
the money went.
And so on.
pendence into a historical footnote.
along with the
Since George Bush put "tax reve-
About the only thing on the chop-
Ivars Godmanis and Janis Jurkans,
litical nonsense
nue- increases" on the table last
ping block is defense, with the excep-
Latvia's newly elected prime minister and
ple from finding
month, the House of Representatives
tion of domestic military bases the
foreign minister, represent the optimistic
Indochinese re
has passed eight appropriations bills
Pentagon doesn't want. The Stealth
side of that wager. The pair of Balts
camps in Sout!
worth $403.1 billion. That's about $41
bomber has to go, but Democrat Gene
checked into Washington's Mayflower Ho-
will give them
tel 10 days ago bearing a message for Mr.
been interned
billion or 11.4% more than last year,
Taylor is holding onto his district's
more than double the inflation rate.
Bush from Boris Yeltsin, the Russian re-
It is this sit
Mississippi Army ammunition plant,
public's new president. Mr. Yeltsin sug-
sored conferer
The Housing and Veterans bill came
just in case someone (say a GOP can-
gested opening diplomatic relations be-
summer as su
in at a whopping 17% over a year ago,
didate) invades the Gulf Coast. A
tween the Russian republic and the U.S.
Vietnam-is CC
apparently meant as a tribute to the
"base closing bill" sponsored by Dem-
Soon, the Latvians hope, new individual
neva. The favo
HUD scandal. The farm bill is rolling
ocratic Reps. Les Aspin and Pat
nations-Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and
the convention
in at a record $54 billion, while a
Schroeder is rigged with enough bu-
Russia-will start replacing the Kremlin in
boat people ba
Ways and Means subcommittee has
reaucratic tripwires to prevent most
the international order. "Everything is
against their W
created a new $4.5 billion foster-care
bases from ever closing.
great. We see no problem," burbled Mr.
tend that they
entitlement. Dan Rostenkowski may
Jurkans into the telephone late one eve-
We could go on, but suffice it to say
A Large-Scal
ning last week after a meeting with Secre-
curse the deficit, but don't say he
that this is the crowd President Bush
The irony is
tary of State James Baker.
doesn't know how to have a good
wants to reach a budget "agreement"
much more dif
As things turned
time.
settle because
with. The talks are stalled, so the lat-
out, the Latvians did
The farm bill captures the let's-
cluding the U.S
est line is that the fault lies "within
make progress. The
quotas, the boa
get-busy nature of the revels. In the
the White House." Reportedly, John
U.S. has never rec-
proved their W
House, a rare liberal-conservative co-
Sununu and Dick Darman are at odds,
ognized the Soviet
From 1981 to
alition tried to remove the worst sub-
as if the President doesn't make up
annexation of the
conducted a la
sidies, but "we got waxed," reports
Baltic nations in
his own mind.
nomic and socia
1940, but it doesn't
New York Democrat Tom Downey.
But even if he can agree with Tom
boat people,
(yet) recognize the
Even an amendment to deny crop sub-
Foley and George Mitchell, how will
households acr
new Baltic govern-
sidies to farmers earning more than
George Bush enforce anything with
were predomin
ments either. When
nic Chinese fro.
$100,000 went down to defeat, though it
the rest of Congress? Whom can he
the Latvians arrived
were Lao. All
would have saved $700 million a year.
count on? Senate Appropriations
in Washington, the
U.S. during the
In the Senate, a bipartisan attempt to
Chairman Robert Byrd? Not likely,
White House told
Unlike those
trim the ridiculous sugar subsidy by a
since Mr. Byrd is privately boasting
them the president
had no time to meet.
Lennart Meri
ter the fall of
mere two cents a pound (to 16 cents)
that as long as he's in the Senate
wave of refug.
Messrs. Godmanis and Jurkans were not
also was routed.
George Bush will never get a line-
and occupation
even invited to last Wednesday's Rose Gar-
The only Members not enjoying the
item veto or enhanced rescission.
contact with the
den ceremony commemorating Captive
party are the nerds trying to resist the
Short of these or other institutional
hardship in the
Nations Day-even though the annual
they were muc
peer pressure. After Illinois Republi-
reforms, the only fiscal discipline in
event is designed specifically to honor
Only one in 10}
can-Harris Fawell voted to cut back
town was "no new taxes." While Con-
struggles of nations like Latvia. On Thurs-
rival to be able
one spending bill by a measly 2%,
gress still spent into deficit, even it
day, though, Sen. Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.)
signs and, in ter
House appropriators denied a $17 mil-
could only go SO far. With that disci-
introduced the two gentlemen to the Sen-
they arrived wi:
lion grant to Argonne Laboratory in
pline now lifted, Congress is back to
ate, and the president's office got wind of
entered the U.S
Mr.: Fawell's district. Everyone else
the Yeltsin message. Presidential time ma-
its bacchanal. Mr. Bush has played
since the Grea
terialized. The Latvians spent 40 minutes
got the message.
his best card, but Congress has yet to
Nonetheless.
Monday with Mr. Bush.
Minnesota Democrat Tim Penny's
had found empl
put a single spending cut or budget re-
Whatever this kind of behavior says
poverty, while
proposal to cut each appropriation bill
form on the table. No wonder the
about the president, it satisfies the buoyant
even experts in
by 2% lost all but once, much like ear-
Members are in a mood to party.
Latvians. "Creeping recognition," is how
their remarkah
some in Washington have described it.
deed. little in t
"Fine, don't recognize us yet." Mr. God-
manis reportedly told Mr. Bush. "We're