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WASHINGTON, D.C.: House Republicans used toady's IRS deadline to score some points with voters by introducing a vote on a Constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds majority of Congress to increase federal taxes. Republican sponsors say the amendment will make it harder for politicians to dip into the pockets of American families, but Democrats suggest it is political grandstanding. "It is a gimmick, something to bring up in a reelection speech," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "Republicans are not actually trying to amend the Constitution. They want to drive home the point that they are serious about not raising...
CALL IT THE FLIPPER FLIP-FLOP. A squabble over attempts to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act is forging some strange alliances even as it opens up a bitter rift in the environmental movement. In the end, it may be business interests--once the villains in the piece but now terrified of a boycott by dolphin-loving consumers--that decide the matter...
...decreased interest in the Faculty Council, the Faculty unanimously supported a proposal which would amend the process by which faculty are nominated to the Council...
...petition would "amend the guidelines that define the Core to let appropriate departmental courses count for core credit...
...also will amend the Doles' federal income-tax returns to correct a separate mistake: speech income that she should have claimed on her returns. Mrs. Dole gave at least seven speeches, worth $16,000, in 1991-94 to civic groups that erroneously paid her honorariums directly to the Red Cross. A lawyer for Mrs. Dole asserts that she paid the proper amount in taxes, though she might face civil penalties for failing to report the misrouted money. Now that she's correcting the problem, first suggested by the Los Angeles Times last month, the political deduction could be small...