A
Aaron, Henry, 315
Ackley, Gardner, 359
Addabbo, Joseph P., 304
Administration, Reagan:
appointments, members, 75 -88, 235 , 429 -30
divisions within, 82 -85, 98 -99, 119 , 165 , 174 -75, 185 -91, 196 -97, 206 , 220 -22, 234 -35, 349 , 357 -59, 368 -69, 382 , 385 , 389 -90, 421 , 444 , 452 , 509 -10
responsibility to the president, 79 -81, 86 -89, 101 -2, 119 , 134 -35, 388 , 443 -44.
See also Feldstein, Martin; Regan, Donald; Stockman, David
Afghanistan, 19 , 32 , 35 , 38 , 64
AFL-CIO, 34 , 117 , 311 , 318 , 320 , 323 , 325 , 347 , 362 , 419 , 498 , 567
Albertine, Jack, 477
Alexander, William, 131 , 279 , 283
Allen, Richard, 109
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 320 -22, 507
American Business Council, 477
American Farm Bureau Federation, 523
American Medical Association, 395
Americans for Democratic Action, 257
Anderson, Charles, 555
Anderson, John, 587
Anderson, Martin C., 75 -78, 82 -84, 88 -89, 101 , 106 -7, 110 -11, 119 , 134 , 196 , 235 , 253 , 276 , 586
Andrews, Mark, 122 , 202 , 290 , 369 , 399 , 461
Applegate, Doug, 598
Appropriations, 140 -41, 186 , 192 -93, 195 -97, 199 -203, 285 , 293 -94, 363 , 373 -74, 377 , 405 -10, 438 , 461 -63, 517 -18, 521
caps in 1984, 384 , 391 -92, 399 -403
hearings, 290 -91
norm of passing bills, 209 -10, 215 -16, 285 , 373 -74
(see also authorizations)
process, xiv , 3 -5, 8 -11, 140 -41
and targets, including 302(b), 14 , 293 -94, 405 -6, 458 -60.
See also Continuing resolutions; Supplemental Appropriations
Archer, William, 311 , 322 -23, 493 -95
Armstrong, William, 61 , 125 -26, 169 -70, 177 , 242 , 279 , 289 , 311 -12, 319 -20, 322 , 325 -26, 378 -79, 438 , 514
Ashbrook, John, 155
Aspin, Les, 115 , 244 -47, 304 , 452
Atkinson, Eugene, 598
Authorizing Committees:
and appropriations, 9 -11, 153 , 296 -97, 362 -63, 374 , 407 -09
and 1981 reconciliation, 45 -47, 97 , 137 -38, 141 -46, 148 , 153
and 1982 reconciliation, 248
See also Continuing resolution; Reconciliation