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...legislation, it would completely satisfy no one. But because the measure gives some tax relief to the nation's inflation-besieged electorate, Carter, despite his disappointment over the lack of reform, was expected to sign the bill. This would be good news for the tired members of the 95th Congress; they would then be able to nail a tax cut to their election-campaign banners...
...vote that so buoyed Ole Boy Jordan was perhaps the most impressive -and unexpected-in Carter's string of recent victories in the once recalcitrant 95th Congress. The House, by a margin of 223 to 190, fell a surprising 53 votes short of overriding Carter's veto of a $10 billion public works bill that would have funded 59 highly varied water projects scattered throughout the legislators' home districts. In a three-day publicity blitz, the President had labeled the bill "wasteful," "inflationary" and an example of "pork barrel" politics...
...Jimmy Carter, the presidency must sometimes seem like an endless series of tests in which he is asked to prove that he is capable of leading the nation. In foreign policy particularly, the rambunctious 95th Congress is determined to judge every use of the authority that the Constitution grants him. Last week the Administration underwent two of these trials?on Turkey and Rhodesia?and while the results were mixed, Carter earned passing grades for leadership. But coming up this week: a new exam on foreign...
...Panama debate at the intensity of the struggle for a treaty plainly necessary for America in the modern world. Why should the national interest be so hard for the Senate to discern? he wondered. He offered part of an answer. Those highly educated and staffed members of the 95th Congress, so renowned for their independence, are too often more concerned about gaining political popularity by defying the President than they are about the national interest...
...House and 57 Senators co-sponsored various tax credit bills in the past year. Nonetheless, Carter's proposal has gained support from influential members of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Either way, the chances are good that middle-income families will win some relief from the 95th Congress...