Word: enactments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right degree," but he insisted that he had moved "consistently in the right direction." The trouble with the tuning machinery of the new economics, he seemed to be implying, was mostly some loose wires in Congress. Johnson asserted that "damage has already been done" by congressional failure to enact the tax surcharge. "In the next few weeks," he added, "we must demonstrate that we can raise as well as lower taxes...
...resigned in despair. Yet Mills, while generally conservative, is not one of the dwindling company of Southern obstructionists who use the committee chairmanships that devolve upon them through the encrusted traditions of seniority to block anything and everything new. A Harvard-trained lawyer and former judge, he has helped enact much liberal legislation during his 29 years in the House. On roll-call votes during the past three years, Mills backed the Administration 65% of the time, a relatively high figure for a Southern Democrat...
...defraying the cost of stationing troops in Europe. Japan pleaded difficulties with its own balance of payments deficit in refusing to agree to any specific new steps to bolster the dollar. Officials in both London and Tokyo expressed alarm over the possibility that the Administration may ask Congress to enact some form of border taxes to offset those imposed by Common Market countries. Clearly, Johnson's unexpectedly drastic blow at the U.S. payments deficit had strained the intricate fabric of international arrangements for world trade. It will take cool heads and delicate negotiations to avoid some serious rips...
...tough measures will spur Mills to swifter action on the tax increase, he may be in for a disappointment. In announcing his program at the ranch, the President declared, largely for Mills's benefit, "No business before the returning Congress will be more urgent than this: to enact the anti-inflation tax which I have sought for almost a year." But Mills and several Ways and Means colleagues are still deeply disturbed at the rate of Government spending, and they do not intend to move the tax surcharge bill out of committee until Johnson does more to cut federal...
...from the other two states to cross its borders to seek employment without passports or entry permits. The Community will have both a "cabinet" composed of three ministers of East African affairs, one from each government, and a Legislative Assembly that will include nine persons from each nation to enact laws governing services. Though only a modest first step, the East African Economic Community promises to be the smartest-and the fastest-growing-club in Africa...