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...wanted an extension the 10% income tax surcharge as an anti-inflationary measure. He was notably less keen on tax reform at this time. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield warned the President that he could not have the surtax without reform?and managed to impose this view on Finance Chairman Russell Long, a Louisiana Democrat to whom 27½% oil-depletion allowance is most precious the reform-bill cuts the allowance to 20%). As Senate Democrats were squabbling, however, Long's House counterpart, Ways and Means Chairmen Wilbur Mills, who cherishes the House's constitutional prerogative to originate revenue measures, felt...
...page bill is the first comprehensive revision of the U.S. tax code since the income tax was adopted in 1913. Despite its sweeping nature, however, there was little disagreement over its passage. Blaming a "misunderstanding," Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills defused potential liberal opposition to the bill by providing tax breaks for lower-and middle-income taxpayers left out of the measure as reported by his committee. Inclusion of those in the $7,000 to $12,000 categories will cost the Treasury $2.4 billion. Only three-quarters of the time allocated for floor debate was used. Constituent mail...
...save the marshes from unthinking land developers. Odum is working with a young Georgia legislator to protect his state's coastal wetlands from such destruction, and is particularly interested in seeing ecology taught to students of other disciplines such as law and sociology. >Barry Commoner, 52, chairman of the botany department at Washington University in St. Louis, is a prolific lecturer and writer (Science and Survival) who brings an ecologist's insight and a polemicist's passion to the dangers of environmental pollution. "The new technological man," says Commoner, "carries strontium 90 in his bones, iodine...
...Harold E. Hughes (D-Iowa), chairman of the subcommittee, said that he had been unaware of the agents' presence...
...ride in, when they are working. But the immediate prospect is for more trouble. Last week the M.T.A. pushed L.I.R.R. President Frank Aikman Jr. into early retirement, provoking charges from many commuters that Aikman is being made a scapegoat for the mistakes of Dr. William J. Ronan, the M.T.A. chairman, who is staying on. Aikman was replaced by Walter L. Schlager Jr., an executive from the New York City subway system. Harold J. Pryor, the verbose head of four L.I.R.R. union locals, warned that he would give Schlager 15 days to improve labor-management relations. Was he making another...