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REVENUE SHARING. The principle involved is controversial (see box, page 18), and passage is doubtful. The proposal must originate in the House, and there it is opposed by a formidable trio: Speaker Albert, Chairman Mills and the top-ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, Wisconsin's John Byrnes...
That "if" is rather gigantic. Nixon will have to drive the plan through a Congress whose leaders jealously guard their control over the use of federal revenues. On the House Ways and Means Committee, which has life and death power over the plan, both Democratic Chairman Wilbur Mills and the...
Byrnes, the committee's ranking Republican, decided that it was not their brand of federalism because it took too much power away from Congress.
REVENUE SHARING. A cornerstone of the Administration's concept of a "New Federalism," the plan would give the states an automatic share of federal tax revenues. This would theoretically enable government functions to be performed more effectively at lower levels. The bill has not even had committee hearings. Chairman...
Ill lay: Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirlcsen, 73, "resting well" at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington after surgeons removed the tumorous upper lobe of his right lung (a biopsy proved the growth malignant, but surgeons think that they got it all, believe no further treatment will be necessary); James...