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Hoping to avoid parliamentary chaos, O'Neill has carefully selected the 27 Democrats on the committee from a startling total of 140 volunteers. (There are also 13 Republican members picked by House Minority Leader John Rhodes.) The roster includes chairmen of some of the committees dealing with energy, including Oregon's Al Ullman, head of Ways and Means, who is one of the few lawmakers who think that the proposal for a progressive gas tax will pass. Another key member: Interior's Mo Udall, who favors Carter's program, although he wishes it included...
State Sen. Alan D. Sisitsky expressed confidence last week that the Judiciary Committee would award decriminalization its seal of approval this year. The Senate chairman of the joint panel, Sisitsky observed, "when the two chairmen agree on an issue, there is little argument about what happens after that." Disagreement does crop up when the talk turns to the bill's chances on the floor this year, however...
Since Manuel F. Cohen left the post in 1969, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has had no fewer than five chairmen, a measure of the job's toughness during a time of reform in the securities industry. Last week President Carter designated still another boss as the nation's securities watchdog: Harold M. Williams, 49, the brilliant dean of U.C.L.A.'S Graduate School of Management and former chairman of Norton Simon Inc., the consumer-products conglomerate. After his expected confirmation by the Senate, Williams will replace Roderick M. Hills, chairman since 1975, who had told Carter...
Williams will begin his five-year term at a time when many of the difficulties facing previous chairmen have already been resolved. Much of the private-club nature of the New York Stock Exchange has been stripped away by SEC-mandated rule changes. Negotiated commissions for stock trades went into effect nearly two years ago, abolishing the anticompetitive fixed-commission system. A consolidated ticker tape is in operation, allowing investors to compare prices for individual stocks on several exchanges, including the N.Y.S.E...
...Board of Trustees does not feel that department chairmen should be included in the union because of their managerial role, White said...