Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bargaining between the House and Senate that finally produced the bill, the Senate yielded mostly in reducing the size of the cuts it wanted. The final amount was only $3.5 billion more than that approved by the House. But the Senate conferees, notably at the stubborn insistence of Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, succeeded in including the credit on new homes, the $50 Social Security payment and the retention, at least temporarily, of oil depletion for smaller companies. None of those items were in the House bill...
Both chambers exercised restraint, considering the political temptations toward generosity whenever a tax cut is contemplated. Oregon Democrat Al Ullman, who succeeded Wilbur Mills as head of the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired the conference committee and earned praise as a moderating influence...
...greatest." When Kennedy was speaking at Newton, a baby started to cry, and his mother got up to take him out of the room. Quipped Teddy: "That's all right, let him stay - maybe we'll make a Democrat...
...Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, a veteran champion of the oil-depletion allowance, had produced a bill with no depletion repeal in it. Leading a successful floor fight to knock out the allowance for all but the smallest independent oil producers were Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings, a South Carolina Democrat with vice-presidential ambitions, and Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy. They were sharply opposed by Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, an announced presidential candidate and friend of the oil producers. Certain that depletion was politically unsupportable in the face of soaring oil-company profits and that its repeal would...
...Noble, a Democrat, helped form the women's caucus in the Massachusetts State Legislature this year. She stressed the need to form coalitions with other women and minorities to develop a unified set of priorities...