Key Lawmaker Against Tax Hike

WASHINGTON — The House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. William H. Gray III (D-Pa.), said today he is flatly opposed to tax hikes in putting together a 1986 budget and declared, “We’re going to do it with spending cuts.”

“I don’t see it as an option,” Gray said. He said that there was clearly no support for any revenue-raising measure this year from House Democrats, still reeling from President Reagan’s efforts during the 1984 election campaign to paint the Democratic Party as one advocating tax hikes.