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...could provide those orders. In the meantime, no one wants to act precipitately on impeachment. Polls of House members show only a few dozen willing to declare firmly for or against impeachment now. The vast majority of Republicans and Democrats are staying carefully uncommitted. Their re-election may well depend...
...last estimate, O'Neill calculated that some 50 of the 188 Republicans were leaning toward impeachment, a solid start toward gaining the kind of bipartisan support that the House leadership has been hoping to achieve should impeachment seem warranted. Holding these and winning over others may well depend as much upon how the evidence is handled by the Democrats as the evidence itself. And O'Neill, as he well knows, cannot afford to make a mistake in the days ahead. Privately, he believes that in the end the process will not run full course, that at some point...
...rubric; then it must determine whether the President might be guilty of any of the offenses. Once the report is presented, the Judiciary Committee has to decide whether to proceed further with an impeachment inquiry-almost a foregone conclusion. A more critical problem for the committee is whether to depend on evidence gathered by others or to undertake an original investigation of its own. In either case, the committee would probably request and get the power to issue subpoenas from the House...
...Security legislation in 1935, conservatives have favored scrapping the system altogether. Economist Milton Friedman, for example, has long espoused a negative income tax as a substitute for Social Security with payments going only to those who could prove they were in need. Ideologically, conservatives would prefer to have workers depend on freely chosen pension plans rather than a mandatory social insurance scheme. But that alternative generates little enthusiasm at a time when many private pension plans are shaky. In any event, though modifications in the system will probably have to be made, Social Security is in no danger of fading...
...spite of the distinctions Fromm tries to make between his approach and Skinner's, he falls victim to his own criticisms of the behaviorists. As with Skinner, his recommendations that society change its "system of production, ownership and consumption" depend on faith in man's manipulability and desire to change...