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First the upper chamber voted a $4.5 billion reduction to offset the increased Social Security taxes. Then it tacked on an array of special-interest freebies. New York Democrat Daniel Moynihan proposed that the New York State Power Authority be allowed to issue tax-exempt bonds. It passed. Russell Long's Senate Finance Committee had moved that chicken coops built by egg producers should qualify for a 10% investment tax credit. It also passed. Taking up the controversial issue of reducing the tax on capital gains, the Senate turned out to be $1.4 billion more generous than the House...
Although the major battle in Congress last week was over taxes, Senators and Representatives also had to fight their way through a bewildering array of measures. "I've voted enough today," snapped Democrat Barbara Jordan of Texas as she hobbled off the House floor on a cane at 11 o'clock one night. Admitted Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd one evening: "I'm so tired that I can't remember whether this motion is debatable...
...Neill ran into unexpected trouble on energy with the House Rules Committee. He wanted to have the legislation, which comprised five separate bills, voted on as a single package. This way, he reasoned, House members would be less vulnerable to pressure against gas deregulation from a formidable array of lobbyists, ranging from representatives of large corporations to Environmentalist James Plug...
...commemorated the fifth anniversary of the October War with an impressive military review in the desert west of the Suez Canal. A bagpipe band skirled It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, as MiG-21 fighters screamed overhead, and 10,000 Egyptian troops-accompanied by a stunning array of military hardware-paraded under a blistering sun. It was one of modern Egypt's most imposing military displays. Nonetheless, the message was that Anwar Sadat was ready to wage peace, not war-albeit from a position of strength...
According to the documents, Carter's Cabinet meetings include a staggering array of subjects, as many as 52 main topics and 80 subtopics on Nov. 7, 1977. This was one of the longer meetings (1 hr. 53 min.); nonetheless, the Cabinet could spend an average of only 2 min. 10 sec. on each subject. This compression may discourage debate and encourage banalities, like U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's recorded statement on Oct. 17,1977-in its entirety -that "a very troublesome problem facing the international community is the energy issue...