Word: hartkee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon did much to change that climate by promising in his 1968 campaign to hold down textile imports. Since then, the pressures have steadily grown. Two weeks ago, for example, the Senate authorized Nixon to increase the 10% surcharge to 15%. Indiana Senator Vance Hartke and Massachusetts Representative James Burke...
Whatever the state of the economy, the case for free trade is as compelling as ever. Protectionism cheats consumers out of money that they could save by purchasing inexpensive imports. (A Nixon Administration task force once estimated that quotas on oil imports alone cost the U.S. consumer $5 billion a...
Corner Grocer. But opposition to the bail-out plan is already forming in Congress, where approval is necessary before the money actually starts flowing. "I will do my best as a Senator to oppose this proposal," said William Proxmire, who figured heavily in the defeat of the SST. House Banking...
Jones added that opposition to the draft is "picking up momentum in the Senate." Jones counts 13 Senators "who have taken an explicit position to end the draft" and "four or five" who have agreed to filibuster, including Senators Harold E. Hughes (D-Iowa), Vance Hartke (D-Ind.), Marlow W...
An aide to Hartke said yesterday that "the Senator will participate in lengthy discussion. Now whether 'lengthy discussion' is any different from filibuster, I'm not sure."