Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom she voted in last April's mayoral election in Ann Arbor. Van Hattum was among 20 men and wom en who, unknown to them, lived just outside city limits and should not have voted at all. Any one of those 20 votes could have proved decisive, since Democrat James Wheeler defeated Republican Louis Belcher by a margin of one (10,660 to 10,659). County Judge James Kelley thought he could establish the winner of the election simply by asking the 20 illegal voters how they cast their ballots. The first 15 called before him dutifully answered...
When Maine's Ed Muskie eventually got the floor, he accused the Vice President of arbitrarily creating "a new order of things, a change in the rules." Colorado Democrat Gary Hart charged that "the U.S. Senate has seen an outrageous act.'' Swiftly, the senatorial anger zeroed in on Byrd. By now, Byrd was burning too. Referring to the weeklong filibuster, despite the vote for cloture, he insisted, "I have not abused the leadership's prerogatives. I am trying to keep Senators from abusing the Senate." Byrd admitted that he had taken "extraordinary advantage of my prerogative...
While the White House dawdled, the forces attacking Carter's energy plan and supporting deregulation mobilized skillfully. The pressure was unrelenting but not brutal. "There was no arm twisting," said North Dakota Democrat Quentin Burdick, a particularly vulnerable target because he was one of the fence sitters (he eventually voted for deregulation). "It was very gentlemanly...
...juggernaut. Even if the gas interests do not win complete deregulation in the end, they are confident they will get a good price for their product when the two chambers meet in conference to thrash out a final bill. Said James Abourezk, the South Dakota Democrat who launched the filibuster in hopes of thwarting the deregulators: "If you want to talk about lobbying, wait until the oil and gas boys zero in on the conference committee members...
...wellhead taxes into R. and D.-perhaps by setting up a federal corporation to underwrite the efforts of companies struggling to find economical ways of coaxing oil out of otherwise exhausted wells, burning it out of shale or extracting it out of tar sands. Russell Long, the Louisiana Democrat who heads the Senate Finance Committee, has threatened to eliminate the wellhead tax from the Carter program unless the revenues are used to help expand production. He has a powerful point. Politically, it would be improper to let the oil companies reap "windfall" profits from raising the domestic price to OPEC...