Word: earmarks
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...Democratic Committee chairman said the bill would be beaten because any tax increase is unpopular. Although he is in favor of the measure, Doherty said that the bill was weak because it failed to earmark specifically the funds for aid to education. Instead, local governments are allowed to use them for administration or welfare programs. He also said he opposed another plan to increase revenue by instituting a statewide sales...
...predictable party-line statements resounded across Capitol Hill as soon as the President had finished talking. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield managed to see in John F. Kennedy's State of the Union message "the authentic earmark of greatness." To Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen it was "like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue with the old prices marked up." Indiana's G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart described it as "more inconsistent than any message I have listened to in my eighteen years in the U.S. Senate." And new House Ma jority Leader Carl Albert called it "the finest State...
Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, joined two other social scientists recently in calling on the federal government to "earmark large-scale funds for basic research in human relations...
...York, Ohio, Missouri, California. These states pressured Congress to bow to the President's proposed tax boost, in the face of the oil industry that lobbied hard against it. The penny tax will raise about $960 million. After it expires in mid-1961, the compromise bill would earmark $2,445 billion from present taxes on autos and parts to the highway program from fiscal 1962 through...
...decline the U.S. experienced during the so-called 1954 recession. Unemployment will also increase, yet only by 400,000 to a total of 3,200,000, once again well below the 4,500,000 to 5,000,000 unemployed (7% of the labor force) that most economists consider the earmark of a true, economy-cramping recession...