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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact of Carter's $141 billion energy program. It was too vast and too complicated, Hart argued, to be approved without extensive research. "We ought to understand what all this means," he said. Muskie agreed and took the argument to Senator Henry Jackson, who wanted an omnibus energy bill as soon as possible. Despite Jackson, the Hart-Muskie view prevailed, and Jackson's own Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to request only $3 billion for the synthetic fuel program in the fiscal 1980 budget instead of the $22 billion sought by the President...
...considered the best passenger train in the nation; the Washington-Montreal Montrealer; and one of the two trains running between New York and Florida. Those likely to be dropped: the Chicago-Miami Floridian, the New York-Kansas City National Limited, the Chicago-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha. Since the Senate bill resembles the one passed by the House, the Administration will probably grudgingly go along with the more limited cutback...
...June 11. If they do not do so, contends White, the delegates chosen by any earlier election could possibly be denied seats at the Democratic National Convention next summer in New York City. (Democratic officials in New Hampshire have apparently complied technically with the rules by introducing a bill in the legislature to change that state's primary date, but they have no decisive influence in the Republican-dominated legislature, and actually like the first-in-the-nation status.) One of those two challenges seemed to collapse last week. Realizing that he did not have the votes to approve...
...state Democratic chairman, Chester Atkins, also refused to back the bill. At the same time, Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas said he may run in the primary as part of a "hold-the-delegates-for-Kennedy operation...
...charge of passing a bad check. She was promptly jailed. Her alleged crime: writing a $3.39 check on a closed bank account, which is a felony in Missouri. She made the check good and the charges were dropped. The sheriff then angrily announced that he would send Missouri a bill for $460, which was the cost of keeping her in jail five days and paying for her court-appointed lawyer. Said he: "This is one of the reasons we have some pretty difficult problems in law enforcement. It's a very shabby way of conducting business." The sheriffs name...