Word: doled
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...them nonetheless supplied the votes to retain its key element, the withholding by the IRS of 10% of all interest and dividends earned by individuals who have savings accounts or own stocks. This withholding would be applied against taxes owed during the year. Pushed hard by Republicans Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Majority Leader Howard Baker as a way to rebut critics who claim that Reagan's tax and spending cuts unfairly hurt the poor, the proposal was strongly opposed by banks and brokerage firms. They complained, quite validly, that it would cost them heavily...
Shortly before the July 4 recess, however, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole of Kansas got the Republican-controlled unit to approve, by a party-line vote of 11 to 9, a bill that would raise taxes for individuals and businesses by $21.1 billion in fiscal 1983, and by $98.6 billion over the next three years. President Reagan last week gave his blessing; White House Spokesman Larry Speakes said the bill preserved "the basics of our economic program." Members of both parties expect that the Senate will pass the bill virtually intact shortly after it reconvenes this week...
...spiraling out of control, interest rates are likely to stay high and choke off a recovery from the lingering recession. Says Conable: "Wall Street is watching us very closely to see if we are serious or just playing games." But when the House takes up its version of the Dole bill, it is certain to be pounced upon by lobbyists for an extraordinary array of powerful interests: doctors, lawyers, airlines, aerospace contractors, banks, tobacco farmers and cigarette makers. Says Conable: "The Senate caught them napping, but now they have to take all these proposals seriously." The bill's fate...
Republican Robert Dole of Kansas helped fashion a compromise that preserved the effect test but warded off fears of racial quotas. Under Dole's standard, judges must weigh the "totality of circumstances," including whether an area has a history of discrimination. He also suggested that the law specifically state that minorities are not entitled to proportional representation. The changes satisfied the Judiciary Committee, which approved the bill last May. But Helms remained opposed and warned that the courts would still demand quotas. Said Helms: "Not ten Senators, if that many, have read the [Judiciary] committee's report...
Pepper demanded that Chairman Greenspan rebuke Armstrong: "If one member can make an assault on another, we become a brawling group." Greenspan mildly reiterated his hope that "we can keep the rhetoric down to an absolute minimum." Wisecracked Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas: "We carry on like this all the time on the floor of the House and the Senate...