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Safire, William, 355

Salmon, John J., 477

Samuelson, Robert, 520

Santini, James D., 142

Sasser, Jim, 126 , 437 , 567 , 655

Saudi Arabia, 37

Savage, James, 353 -54

Schick, Allen, 11 -12, 45 , 567

Schneider, Bill, 109 -10, 186

Schneider, Claudine, 181 , 244

Schneider, William, 421 , 478

Schram, Martin, 162

Schultze, Charles, 23 , 33 , 303 , 656 n.19

Schumpeter, Joseph, 351

Schweicker, Richard, 89 , 133 -36

Scorekeeping, 140 -41, 143 -44, 154 -55, 166 , 200 -202, 212 , 215 , 281 , 295 -96, 307 , 320 -22, 391 , 404 , 513 , 517 , 567 .

See also Budget authority vs. outlays; Fakery

Seiberling, John, 46 , 48 , 210

Senate Republicans:

deference in 1981, 114 , 119 -23, 126 , 160 , 164 -65

independence after 1981, 197 , 203 , 206 -8, 217 -20, 225 -26, 241 -44, 308 -9, 373 , 379 -80

out front in 1985, 430 -39

unity and 1984 election, 383 , 392

See also Administration, Reagan; Gypsy Moths; Reaganomics; Tax cuts

Sequestration, 440 -41, 448 , 451 -53, 455 -56, 507 , 509 -13

"Seven-Year Budget War," 11

Shanahan, Eileen, 491 , 496

Shanker, Albert, 113

Shanks, J. Merrill, 422

Shannon, James, 114 , 253

Shapiro, Donald, 487

Shelby, Richard C., 143

Shields, Mark, 298

Shultz, George, 75 , 82 , 166 , 473 , 587

Shumway, Norman, 184

Simon, Paul, 93 , 115

Simon, William, 75 , 587

Simpson, Alan, 436 , 465

Skocpol, Theda, 539

Small Business Administration, 363

Smith, Denny, 361

Smith, Neal, 46 , 438

Snelling, Governor, 223

Social Security, 3 -5, 32 , 40 , 103 -4, 11 , 120 -21, 126 , 133 -36, 143 , 176 -77, 192 , 242 -43, 357 , 375 , 378 -80, 397 -98, 411 , 432 -38, 445 , 533

Gang of 17 , 236 -40, 610 n.28

growth, 333 -35, 337 -41

minimum benefit, 152 , 154

rescue package, 193 , 309 -30, 618 n.18, 619 n.23

See also Deficit—Causes; Entitlements; Reagan—Moral Economy

Solarz, Steven, 115

Solomon, Anthony, 55

Solomon, Peter, 133

Soviet Union, 19 , 32 , 36 -38, 108 , 175 , 190 , 415 , 548

Speakes, Larry, 385 , 436

Special interests, xvii , 6 , 380 -81, 419 -20, 431 , 468 , 472 -73, 486 , 495 , 497 -502, 507 , 532 -34, 539 , 543 , 548 , 569 , 572

bidding war on ERTA, 166 -67, 171 -75, 180 -82

business vs. defense, 233 -34

doctors and hospitals vs. the elderly, 395 , 404 -5

the elderly, 292 , 533

farmers, 212 -15

federal employees, 60 , 295 -96, 323 , 325 -27, 619 n.23

Teamsters and truckers, 303 -4

See also Democracy; Interest withholding; Labor; Lobbying; Public Interest, The; Social Security

Specter, Arlen, 122

Spending cut packages:

Bipartisan Budget Appeal, 359

Democratic 1980-81, 40 -42, 115 , 123 -25, 131 , 142 -46

Gang of 17 , 237 -39

Democratic surveys, 361 -62, 376

"freeze" proposals, 230 , 360 , 396 -99

FY83 budget process, 228 -30, 234 , 241 -42, 244 -45, 249

FY84 budget process, 366 , 369 -72

FY85 budget process, 391 -99

FY86 budget process, 432 -39

GRH sequester, 506 , 511 -12

out side budget process, 72 -73, 375 , 378 -81

Reagan 1981, 88 -89, 101 -2, 104 -6, 111 -12, 127 , 146 , 148 , 150 -52, 154 -55, 591 nn.40, 56

Reagan FY84-85, 358 , 360 , 391 -92, 398

Republican pre-Spending

1981, 40 -42, 84 -85

"September offensive," 191 -92, 195 , 196

See also Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (OBRA); Reconciliation; Social Security; Summits, budget

Spinney, Franklin C., 366

Sprinkel, Beryl, 30 , 86 , 98 , 189

Stafford, Robert, 121 -22, 153 , 223 , 298 , 369 , 399 , 489

Stark, Fortney (Pete), 257 , 477 , 481

State, The, 535 , 543 -46, 549 -50

State managers:

American executive as, 544

in budget battles, 549 , 566

in Marxism, 544

notion of, 538

Stein, Herbert, 27 , 78 , 85 , 99 , 157 , 274

Stenholm, Charles, 92 , 127 , 152 , 165

Stennis, John C., 114

Stevens, Ted, 119 , 122 , 202 , 288 , 291 , 305 , 326 , 398 , 402 , 406 , 462 -63

Stevenson, Adlai, 427

Stockman, David, 31 , 41 , 47 -48, 64 , 76 , 78 , 81 -86, 88 -92, 95 -110, 113 , 115 , 119 -29, 132 -49, 151 -52, 154 -56, 163 -65, 170 , 173 -76, 179 , 181 , 183 -93, 196 -99, 201 -2, 210 -11, 216 , 219 , 221 -22, 225 , 227 -28, 231 -37, 251 , 254 , 269 , 271 , 279 , 285 -90, 292 -93, 301 , 307 , 319 -21, 336 , 341 , 349 , 356 -61, 364 , 368 -69, 374 , 382 , 385 -400, 404 , 407 , 409 , 429 , 433 , 435 , 437 , 439 , 443 -44, 461 , 473 , 532 , 537 -38, 541 , 555 -56, 587 , 590-91, 595

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), "Star Wars," 197 , 367 , 409

Strauss, Robert, 416 , 523

Summits, budget, 31 -32, 235 -41, 286 , 319 -22, 372 , 382 -83, 390 , 407 , 520 -21, 566 -67

Supplemental appropriations, 53 , 211 , 286 , 288 -94, 362 -65

emerging stalemate, 365

veto override, 291 -93

See also Appropriations; "Jobs" Bills

Surrey, Stanley, 473

"Switchblade state," 539

"Switchboard state," 539

Symms, Steven, 125 -26, 242 , 398 , 490

Synar, Michael, 448 -49, 510