Originally Posted by
dave1013
In the court of public opinion, the idea was not unlike the FY-1981 Federal budget, which landed with a thud in the White House and elicited a famous quote from President Reagan that it was dead on arrival.
I agree with you on the likelihood of a name change, but in an effort to correct history, it was Reagan's budgets that were quoted as "dead on arrival" when they were submitted to the Congress in the early 1980s.
The President proposes, the Congress disposes. Or at least it used to.
