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Capitol Hill Democrats are pleased by the attention they’re getting from Mr. Reagan and his congressional liaison, Max L. Frieder Dorf. By time of first congressional break, Frieder Dorf expects Reagan to have met entire Senate membership and most members of the major money committees in House. . . . Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D., Ill.), Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee, said after first meeting with Reagan: “He’s a warm guy—and he’s smart. He listened and I talked. I told him 1 hoped to be able to come back in two years and say the House Democrats had given him more support than the Republicans—and 1 think we will.” . . . Rostenkowski’s hopes will soon be tested, with leaking of Office of Management and Budget’s proposed targets for budget cuts. OMB, under David Stockman, calls for cuts in the expected places (public-service jobs, Medicaid, food stamps) as well as in sacred cows (Farmers Home Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, National Endowments for Arts and Humanities). Among the programs heavily cut: Carter Administration’s huge synthetic fuel program. . . . House Democrats are looking forward to Administration request to raise federal debt limit $50 billion, to $985 billion. Last June, House Republicans voted 154 to 10 against boost in debt limit and attacked Democrats who supported it as big spenders. When Stockman was in House, Democrats recall, he always voted against such bills. Stockman responds: “I voted against those debt-ceiling bills because I had no confidence anybody was developing a plan to control spending. 1 have confidence that such a plan is now being developed because 1 am writing it.”

The Reagan Cabinet is now complete with Senate approval of Raymond J. Donovan as Secretary of Labor. In the floor debate over his appointment, Donovan drew most nay votes of any Cabinet choice. . . . One of Reagan’s most popular appointments so far is selection of Ernest Lefever as assistant secretary for human rights in State Department. Lefever, head of Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, will replace Patricia Derian, which explains some of the joy. . . . Annelise G. Anderson has been named associate director for economics and government in Office of Management and Budget, haven of supply-siders. She is wife of White House domestic policy advisor Martin Anderson, who is reported to be cool to supply-side theories. . . . James L. Buckley will go to Washington, not as senator from Connecticut but as under secretary of state for coordination of security assistance programs. . . . Credit Walter J. Stoessel Jr., ambassador to West Germany appointed under secretary of state for political affairs, for ending special treatment for Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin. Dobrynin’s limo can no longer use private entrance to State.

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Capitol Hill Democrats are pleased by the attention they’re getting from Mr. Reagan and his congressional liaison, Max L. Frieder Dorf. By time of first congressional break, Frieder Dorf expects Reagan to have met entire Senate membership and most members of the major money committees in House. . . . Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D., Ill.), Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee, said after first meeting with Reagan: “He’s a warm guy—and he’s smart. He listened and I talked. I told him 1 hoped to be able to come back in two years and say the House Democrats had given him more support than the Republicans—and 1 think we will.” . . . Rostenkowski’s hopes will soon be tested, with leaking of Office of Management and Budget’s proposed targets for budget cuts. OMB, under David Stockman, calls for cuts in the expected places (public-service jobs, Medicaid, food stamps) as well as in sacred cows (Farmers Home Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, National Endowments for Arts and Humanities). Among the programs heavily cut: Carter Administration’s huge synthetic fuel program. . . . House Democrats are looking forward to Administration request to raise federal debt limit $50 billion, to $985 billion. Last June, House Republicans voted 154 to 10 against boost in debt limit and attacked Democrats who supported it as big spenders. When Stockman was in House, Democrats recall, he always voted against such bills. Stockman responds: “I voted against those debt-ceiling bills because I had no confidence anybody was developing a plan to control spending. 1 have confidence that such a plan is now being developed because 1 am writing it.”

The Reagan Cabinet is now complete with Senate approval of Raymond J. Donovan as Secretary of Labor. In the floor debate over his appointment, Donovan drew most nay votes of any Cabinet choice. . . . One of Reagan’s most popular appointments so far is selection of Ernest Lefever as assistant secretary for human rights in State Department. Lefever, head of Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, will replace Patricia Derian, which explains some of the joy. . . . Annelise G. Anderson has been named associate director for economics and government in Office of Management and Budget, haven of supply-siders. She is wife of White House domestic policy advisor Martin Anderson, who is reported to be cool to supply-side theories. . . . James L. Buckley will go to Washington, not as senator from Connecticut but as under secretary of state for coordination of security assistance programs. . . . Credit Walter J. Stoessel Jr., ambassador to West Germany appointed under secretary of state for political affairs, for ending special treatment for Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin. Dobrynin’s limo can no longer use private entrance to State.