Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DaRosa considers herself a democrat, but only tenuously. She believes the main issues of the campaign for city council--issues that overshadow all others--are housing and unemployment...
That impression has been strengthened still more by the fact that the lawmakers have pushed into 1978?an election year for all Congressmen and 33 Senators?some of the rougher fights: Panama Canal treaty ratification, welfare reform, tax reform. Says Massachusetts Democrat Gerry Studds: "We don't really have a great deal to show so far. The big issues have either not been addressed or are unresolved...
...chambers began the session by reforming their ways of doing business. The Senate streamlined its committee structure; it also served notice that tyrannical committee chairmen, once chosen on the basis of seniority alone, could be replaced. The House similarly undermined entrenched committee bosses and shifted power to the Speaker. Democrat Tip O'Neill used that leverage to become the strongest Speaker since "Uncle" Joe Cannon, some 65 years ago. Both House and Senate also adopted new ethics rules limiting the outside income that members were allowed to earn...
...more than $3,000, he loses $1 in Social Security benefits for every $2 he earns above that amount. The House voted to raise that ceiling to $4,000 in 1978, $4,500 in 1979, $5,000 in 1980, $5,500 in 1981. In 1982 it will be abolished. Democrat Al Ullman of Oregon argued against the phaseout. Allowing high-income people like doctors and lawyers to collect both their fees and Social Security benefits, said Ullman, would make the system "an annuity program instead of a retirement program." But California's Ketchum maintained that the limit "deprives society...
...Democratic President could get along with business executives, it ought to be James Earl Carter. He won his party's nomination as an outsider railing against bloated Government, angered liberals by putting a balanced budget ahead of expensive new social programs, and disavowed any thought of imposing wage-price controls or even guidelines. Perhaps equally important, as Carter frequently observes, he is a former businessman himself. During the campaign and for a while after the Inauguration, even many executives who voted for Gerald Ford did indeed warm to Jimmy Carter as they rarely do toward any Democrat...