Word: bergland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day Bergland warned Agricultural Committee Chairmen Thomas Foley in the House and Herman Talmadge in the Senate that the President would veto the farm bill if a joint conference committee did not drop the amendment. Three days before Bergland passed along the veto threat, the leading sugar-user spokesman, Coca-Cola's chief purchaser, John Mount, remarked to a group of colleagues while they were having drinks at the bar of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel: "If we cannot prevail in conference, we will just have to call in a few chits and have the President veto...
Whatever Mount's role, Bergland and Long worked out a compromise...
...price-support level was established at 13.5? per lb., and Bergland pledged to begin setting up the support program before the bill became...
...Bergland was unable to persuade Carter to back the plan. Said Bergland...
Sensing a doublecross, Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas angrily accused Bergland of being in "open conflict with what the Congress has directed him to do." Finally, in early November the Administration imposed the tariff and established the support program. For no apparent reason, however, the regulations omitted refined sugar from the tariffs and were otherwise ineffective in curtailing the import of raw sugar before the Jan. 1 deadline. While the Administration delayed closing the loopholes for ten weeks, foreign sugar flooded the U.S. In December alone, nearly 2 million tons of sugar was imported, about six times the normal...