Edited sentence: ' ...  A statement of the League's position on U.' ...  [The League opposed] 'efforts to substitute private programs for social security' and 'opposes any initiatives that would reduce social security benefits to achieve deficit reductions....  The League opposed 'enactment [in 1985] of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act' ... and 'a proposed constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget.According to a conservative humorist, "The League of Women Voters is about as nonpartisan as the House of Representatives.Capital Research Center notes that the League: supports increased welfare spending ... while opposing increases in the defense budget.O'Rourke, political satirist.policies toward developing countries should not be based on maintaining U.preeminence for fighting communism'" -- P.relations with developing countries announced ... that 'U