Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe Mr. Dylan does only square dances. Okay, the sponsors say, we'll run the fair from 3 pm in the afternoon and then sometime after dinner we'll have professional callers Tod Whitemore and Peter Guarnaccia start the doe-si-doein...
This week Carter will attack the proliferation problem by submitting to Congress proposed legislation for creating a streamlined Cabinet-level Department of Energy, fulfilling a promise made early in his campaign. The department, which already is becoming known as DOE in Washington, is in essence the kingdom being created for the man whom Carter has already designated as his Administration's energy czar, former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. At DOE, Schlesinger, now chief White House energy adviser, will have an annual budget of around $7 billion and a truly czar-sized staff of about 20,000 employees. Among them...
...idea of a Cabinet-level energy department is hardly revolutionary; indeed, the DOE that Carter is proposing resembles one drawn up by the Ford Administration in its waning days. But it is a plain and practical proposal, attuned to the nation's current political and economic realities...
...Energy Regulatory Administration. This will be DOE'S licensing and rate-making agency, and it will take over such functions of the Federal Power Commission as approving interstate rates for gas pipelines and electric-power sales. It is the most politically vulnerable of the Carter proposals because DOE'S regulators would not be serving for fixed terms as an independent agency that is insulated from politics like the FPC. Congress could balk, and White House staffers admit that they are "apprehensive" about this aspect of the DOE plan. The Administration hopes to overcome objections about a lack...
Congressional leaders seem sympathetic and are not likely to do extensive damage to the Carter proposal in forthcoming hearings. Many legislators appear inclined to accept the Carter-Schlesinger argument for quick approval of the DOE proposal, which runs: "Pass this one to let us get things organized and running." The big battle, over the substance of energy policy itself, will begin when the Administration starts hammering out the proposals that it plans to submit to Congress by April...