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...began to grow. Senator Bradley, who never got over his astonishment that as a basketball star for the New York Knicks he had been a "depreciable asset" to the team's owners, went shopping for a House partner interested in reform. In the spring of 1982 he and Richard Gephardt of Missouri proposed a code with low rates and few deductions. New York Congressman Kemp, a prime architect of the 1981 tax cuts, later teamed up with Wisconsin Senator Robert Kasten to write a Republican bill that embodied many of the same principles. But none of these legislators...
...President announced that he was ordering Donald Regan, then Secretary of the Treasury, to prepare recommendations that would be released after the election. That directive was widely derided as a transparent ploy, but it worked, thanks partly to some unwitting assistance from Democratic Nominee Walter Mondale. Bradley and Gephardt had visited Mondale to plead that he adopt tax reform as a major issue, but the nominee declined, preferring to plump for a tax increase that turned out to be about as popular as, well, a tax increase...
...conferees repeatedly got hung up, mostly on what Rostenkowski / defined simply as the question of "who benefits and who pays." Many of the legislators had pet industries whose breaks they fought bitterly to protect. One example: Gephardt, of all people, supported Republican Senator John Danforth in arguing for continued special treatment of the profits of defense contractors (some of the biggest are based in their home state, Missouri...
...Cuomo and other political figures, their impression of them, and whom they would prefer right now as a Democratic presidential nominee.* The list included 1984 Presidential Candidates Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, as well as Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and the right-wing fringe candidate, Lyndon LaRouche...
...patient is on the table, dying but not yet dead," said a dejected Richard Gephardt, the Missouri Democrat who has made tax reform his major cause. But Reagan, who grew increasingly angry as he mulled over the G.O.P. defections, ordered his lieutenants to try to revive the moribund bill last week. Said Treasury Secretary James Baker as he headed off to Capitol Hill to cajole and arm-twist, "It ain't over till it's over...