Word: bill
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INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has taken up the cause of the American Indian and has tried to mesh segments of a vaudeville-styled Buffalo Bill Wild West show with segments of Hochhuth-Brechtian didactic polemicism. The idea is to spank the audience while making it laugh, but the whole thing refuses to cohere. Stacy Keach, however, plays Buffalo Bill with relish, flamboyance and charm...
...President also prodded Congress again about its slow legislative pace, claiming that he might not even be able to propose a federal budget on time if appropriations bills continued to lag. Two days later, the Senate made it clear that it would not act this year on his proposal for a lottery procedure for the draft. The bill passed the House, but Democratic leaders in the Senate want to reform the whole Selective Service Act and contend that this requires more time. The issue apparently will reemerge next year, but Nixon need not wait. He can institute certain reforms, short...
...Long's fellow Democrats were determined to bargain the surtax for tax reform, and the Louisianian could keep his promise to the President only by making another to them: in return for their votes on the surtax, he agreed to complete action on the House-passed reform bill and get it to the Senate floor...
Last week Long kept his pledge with only hours to spare. He reported out a bill that provides relief to the country's 72.8 million individual taxpayers and brings long-needed reform to tax statutes. Lowering tax rates and increasing certain deductions, the bill would reduce individual taxes by $9 billion by 1972. Closing loopholes, it would raise an additional $6.5 billion in federal revenues by 1979. The loss is expected to be offset by normal expansion of the economy...
...what has become virtually an annual event, however, the last session of the state legislature defeated a bill to build the Patriots a permanent stadium because the legislators could not agree on plans for financing the stadium. As has also become customary, the legislature then tossed the ball to Harvard, approving Bartley's proposal to have a commission open negotiations with Harvard on the matter...