Word: democratic
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Only frantic, eleventh-hour activity by the President-and the cooperation of Chairman Byrd-prevented the bill from emerging in a form that would have endangered its prospects of quick Senate approval. Committee Republicans were angered when Louisiana Democrat Russell Long rammed through an amendment that cut some $30 million off a proposed $80 million increase in taxes on oil companies. They retaliated by passing amendments to repeal some $445 million in excise taxes on luggage, jewelry, cosmetics and furs...
MARTIN L. DUGGAN News Editor St. Louis Globe-Democrat St. Louis
Sought After. Although Glenn had never registered with either party, he felt right at home as a Democrat. "My mother and dad have been lifelong Democrats," he said, neglecting to mention that his wife Annie is a Republican. "But aside from these family ties, careful consideration of the current positions and leadership of both parties leads me to the choice of the Democratic Party...
Romney's main liability is that he hasn't made a roaring success of being Michigan's first Republican governor in fifteen years. Most of his proposals failed to get through the Legislature, where they were opposed both by Democrats and by the outstate, ultra-conservative Republicans who have dominated both houses. Michigan, which Republicans often call labor-dominated, still does not have a minimum wage law, although Romney has again promised one for this year. Romney's one attempt to assert state over federal power ended when the state Attorney-General, a Democrat, ruled it unconstitutional; thus the state...
...that reason, President Johnson last week placed tax-cut legislation ahead of civil rights in the order of congressional business. And Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee stepped up its work on the tax bill. Among other things, it approved the two-step corporate income tax cut from 52% to 48% and dumped an Administration-sponsored, House-approved provision forbidding the deduction of state and local gas taxes, automobile-and driver-license fees from federal returns. Estimated annual revenue loss: $330 million. In his State of the Union message, President Johnson called for tax-cut passage...