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...Senate, where the Democrats retained a commanding lead. The election was scarcely over when Nixon began tacking into more conciliatory positions for 1972. After an impressive election-eve television rebuttal of the President, and a healthy 61.8% majority in his own re-election campaign, Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie emerged as the man most likely to challenge Nixon two years from...
...Russell Train, a respected conservationist, to head the Council on Environmental Quality. He proposed an international treaty to control development of the ocean floors, and signed a bill making oil polluters liable for damage. MORE HIGHWAYS. Congress often matched Nixon's ambivalence. The Senate produced ample environmental crusaders, notably Edmund Muskie, Philip Hart and Gaylord Nelson, the instigator of Earth Day. But except for passing Muskie's Clean Air Act, which focuses on auto pollution, and the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act, it was business as usual on Capitol Hill. Even the Highway Trust Fund was routinely extended...
Immediately after Maine Senator Edmund Muskie's powerful mid-term election-eve television speech, Pollster Louis Harris set up a mythical presidential race between Muskie, President Nixon and George Wallace. The startling result was a Muskie victory, with 46% of the vote, compared with 40% for the President. Last week George Gallup announced the results of an almost identical sampling taken a month later. In this trial, Nixon squeaked by the Democratic front runner, 44% to 43%. Whether the difference is due to increased presidential popularity or to the vagaries of polltaking two years before the event is difficult...
...conference committees, who are in league with the old men in the House." A filibuster was promptly launched against the $210 million project by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, who opposes the SST on cost and ecological grounds. He was joined by Democratic presidential prospect Edmund Muskie. Republican Leader Hugh Scott marshaled a vote to choke off the filibuster, but it fell far short of the two-thirds vote required...
...naval routine as old as diesel-powered ships. But when Navy ships recently dumped 637,000 gal. of sludge and oil off Mayport, Fla., threatening resort beaches along the Florida coast, the public outcry was heard in Washington. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee chaired by Senator Edmund Muskie last week, Navy Secretary John H. Chafee frankly admitted that the dumpings violated "the spirit and intent of legislation signed by the President [the Envfronmental Protection Act of 1970] only eight months ago." The Navy, he promised, will belay such practices from now on. Still not impressed, Muskie called the Mayport foul...