Congress has occasionally invoked the War Powers Act to limit American military commitments—for example, President Ronald Reagan’s deployment of troops to Lebanon in 1983—but more ambiguous interventions, particularly those with a prominent humanitarian dimension like the ones in..…
The first major confrontation over Social Security occurred in the early 1980s during the Reagan presidency. Reagan had promised to balance the federal budget. But the budget that he sent to Congress in 1981, because of the heavy expenditure on the military, would have led to record..…
Buchanan also committed himself to 'no more racial profiling and no more racial preferences,' to eliminating the Education Department and, in a nod to original reformist goals of the party, said, 'We will outlaw the glorified bribery they call soft money and put term limits on every member of..…
Kennedy, 64, appointed by Reagan in 1988. Conservative to moderate; believes that Congress has gone too far over the years to upset what he calls the 'federal balance,' and thus has put at risk the basic governmental design in the Constitution that fully safeguards state sovereignty. ..…
WASHINGTON -- In move that highlights Christian Coalition's close ties to Republican Congress, former Reagan Cabinet Donald P. ..…
He also collaborated with the Republican Congress to abolish the federal welfare system, something Ronald Reagan could never have gotten away with. . ..…
As for the two dozen Black representatives in Congress, they were powerless to stop Reagan's attacks on civil rights and affirmative action. ..…