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...sufficient. Even some substantive administration maneuvering to placate conservatives has not been enough: Carter has boosted the defense budget by three per cent to 125.8 billion dollars, and nominated a former Pentagon hawk to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, but hard-liners like Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) remain unimpressed. Those who oppose the treaty, including former SALT negotiator Paul Nitze, see it as another step on the road to the international decline of U.S. power. To make its case, the administration will need persuasive arguments which are part of a coherent foreign policy. In particular...
...Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, said yesterday the compromise "will provide the incentives for increased production," thereby enabling the United States to ease its heavy dependence on imported...
...PRESIDENT should have nothing to worry about, since arm-twisting by Byrd and Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), floor leader of the bill, have beaten back efforts to kill it by a filibuster. For a time, it looked as though deregulation might be defeated by a coalition of consumer states, led by Sen. Howard R. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and Sen. James Abourezk (D-S.D.), and joined by right-wingers like Sen. Clifford Hansen (D-Wyo.) who want total deregulation or none at all. But eventually administration supporters garnered enough votes to invoke cloture and kill the kind...
Normally liberal Senators like Frank Church (D-Ida.) found themselves arguing in favor of home-state nuclear interests and against non-proliferation. Church called Carter's policy "a formula for nuclear isolation." Tennessee's pork-barreling delegation plus other, more conservative members of Congress who don't seem to find plutonium all that dangerous, took more blatantly pro-nuclear positions. Rep. Mike McCormick (D-Wash.), a big breeder booster, said "not developing the breeder is like saying we shouldn't have automobiles because somebody can make a Molotov cocktail out of gasoline...
...called Imperial Presidency: Carter vetoed the bill in November (his first exercise of that power), but Clinch River ended up with $150 million for 1978 anyway, almost twice as much as had been voted, then vetoed. An override hadn't even been necessary. Breeder-backers Sens. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Howard Baker (D-Tenn.) easily subverted the veto--and got extra appropriations to boot--by securing a General Accounting Office (GAO) report saying Carter's termination of Clinch River was "substantially inconsistent" with the project's original long-term authorization. In other words, as Sen. James McClure (R-Idaho...