Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another factor was the rising fury of many members of Congress against the U.S. bombing and the President's continued failure to explain it or justify it. Both the House and Senate Democratic caucuses last week passed resolutions-the Senate group by 36 to 12-calling for a cutoff of war funds subject only to the return of U.S. prisoners. Senators George McGovern and Mark Hatfield introduced, for the third time, a similar resolution calling for withdrawal from Viet...
...Tuesday, the House Democratic Caucus passed an end-the-war resolution by a two-to-one margin, and also threatened an immediate cutoff of American funding to Indochina contingent on the release of U.S. prisoners...
...sure, in a growing age of independent voters there probably exists a cutoff point for ticket splitters. If Nixon can get past that point, then he might carry his entire party to victory. But Nixon has been doing almost no personal campaigning. Moreover, he and his staff have often denied party subalterns the money to work their own magic. While Nixon's Committee for the Re-Election of the President has to scratch its head to think of ways to spend its anticipated $45 million budget (bugging the Watergate was apparently one idea), the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee...
...commissions, the SEC settled for a slightly altered version of the present hybrid system. Brokers must now bargain on commissions with customers who make trades worth more than $300,000, a slight cut from the previous minimum of $500,000. The SEC plans to reduce the cutoff point gradually to $100,000 by April 1974. Congressman Moss, on the other hand, wants to abolish fixed commissions entirely and have fees bargained between broker and investor on every trade...
More substantively, the Senate Democratic caucus voted 29 to 14 to condemn the President's escalation of the war, and by a margin of 35 to 8 to demand a cutoff of funds for the war within four months after the Communists return P.O.W.s. This was meant to coincide with Nixon's latest offer, but it does not require a ceasefire. In the House, the Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats demanded a total U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam by Oct. 1. Again, the only precondition would be release of the prisoners and safe withdrawal of U.S. troops...