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...long struggle between the White House and Congress over national energy policy moved closer to a showdown last week. After waiting out a fruitless two-month truce to give the House and Senate time to wrap up an acceptable package of energy legislation, President Ford ordered a phasing out of Government price controls on U.S.-produced oil over the next two years. The move could more than double the price of about two-thirds of the nation's oil output-a prospect that is anathema to many of the Democrats, who hold commanding majorities in both House and Senate...
Whether that fruitless confrontation can be avoided depends heavily on the types of programs Congress builds into the budget. The danger is that the House and Senate will insist on voting permanent programs such as the farm-support bill, rather than short-term stimulation measures that can be revoked when recovery makes them unnecessary. In that event, the public and private sectors of the U.S. will be placed on a collision course that would reverse the upturn and perhaps leave the nation worse off than it was before the recovery began...
...James J. McKenzie, chairman of the Union, said the appearance in Maine was part of the Union's new emphasis on educating the public. "We've moved away from formal intervention before the Atomic Energy Commission, which has proved to be a fruitless waste of time," he said...
...Wilson's possible successors, the thrust of my whole article was that the official "leaders" of the party are no longer in effective control of either party or national policy. If Wilson's successor is a "moderate," he might try to reverse this swing--but such speculation is fruitless...
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