Reagan lobbies from afar for new GOP budget plan
| Washington
The House, its leaders still poles apart, began a second attempt Thursday to pass a 1983 budget, with President Reagan engaged in long-distance lobbying for the conservative version of two partisan alternatives.
House members were being asked to choose between a liberal Democratic plan featuring increased funding for medicare and key social programs and a conservative GOP substitute that would cut social programs to keep the deficit below $100 billion.
