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Liberal Cliches and Conservative Solutions (Green Hill Publishers, Inc., 722 Columbus St., Ottawa, Ill. 61350; $3.95), edited by Philip M. Crane, is a collection of essays and position papers written on a variety of policy issues by 15 conservative Republican members of Congress eager, in the words of Representative Jack Kemp’s Introduction, to “complete the revolution” initiated in 1980 by the election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency. “Whenever,” Kemp writes,

some political leaders excuse their paralysis by complaining that they can’t do anything to solve problems, the American people’s answer is to elect others who can. . . . We House Republicans, naturally, have been in a precarious situation, our power to introduce and amend legislation increasingly circumscribed by unfair rules imposed by Speaker Tip O’Neill and the Democratic majority’s leaders. Still, within these constraints, the Republicans have pushed reforms in legislative initiatives and in floor debates. … The 1980 election was “a new beginning”—but the Reagan revolution remains to be completed. This cannot happen until President Reagan has a GOP-controlled Senate and House to forge the legislative program we need to finish the conservative agenda described in this book.

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Liberal Cliches and Conservative Solutions (Green Hill Publishers, Inc., 722 Columbus St., Ottawa, Ill. 61350; $3.95), edited by Philip M. Crane, is a collection of essays and position papers written on a variety of policy issues by 15 conservative Republican members of Congress eager, in the words of Representative Jack Kemp’s Introduction, to “complete the revolution” initiated in 1980 by the election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency. “Whenever,” Kemp writes,

some political leaders excuse their paralysis by complaining that they can’t do anything to solve problems, the American people’s answer is to elect others who can. . . . We House Republicans, naturally, have been in a precarious situation, our power to introduce and amend legislation increasingly circumscribed by unfair rules imposed by Speaker Tip O’Neill and the Democratic majority’s leaders. Still, within these constraints, the Republicans have pushed reforms in legislative initiatives and in floor debates. … The 1980 election was “a new beginning”—but the Reagan revolution remains to be completed. This cannot happen until President Reagan has a GOP-controlled Senate and House to forge the legislative program we need to finish the conservative agenda described in this book.