Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tulsa World assailed "the gutless way the pay raise was done." Mayor David Burrell of Watonga, Okla., asked residents of his city to fly their flags at half-staff to mourn the "pay-raise ripoff' that Congress "had snuck through." Complained Malcolm Johnson, editor of the Tallahassee Democrat: "You can't find...
Connally is still a marginal Watergate figure, especially in the minds of many Democrats. But his acquital on the milk fund charges last year may have actually raised him in esteem for Republicans who saw much of Watergate as a Democrat-inspired vendetta and his prosecution--based on less-than-solid evidence--as one more manifestation of this vendetta. At the least, the acquital gave Connally a nominal clearance for a return to electoral politics...
...Satisfaction. But Carter's bill ran into a rambunctious revisionist in the person of Oregon Democrat Al Ullman, the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. "The Administration's package didn't really satisfy anyone," said Ullman, who began drafting his own plan. Ullman's attitude was widely shared by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans on the committee who felt that even Carter's meager proposal was too generous toward big businessmen and would not sufficiently cope with the unemployment problem. Instead they preferred a measure aimed directly at creating more jobs...
Despite its flaws, the Ullman revisions are virtually certain to be passed by the House when it votes on Carter's full package this week. The Administration's best hope is to rally support for the President's original proposals in the Senate, where Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, the chairman of the Finance Committee, is regarded to be more favorably disposed than Ullman toward Carter's business provisions. Then the White House hopes that a House-Senate conference committee will toss out Ullman's plan and restore Carter's original concept...
...Americans who live in the zone continue to lobby hard in Congress to maintain the status quo. Last week nine Congressmen flew to Panama to talk to the Zonians. Two Representatives -Iowa Democrat Neal Smith and California Republican Robert Dornan -publicly expressed doubts that the Panamanians sincerely want a treaty...