Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State of the Union speech vowed to veto any new federal spending programs that Congress might enact. But spending on several costly programs, including military pensions and Social Security payments, is tied to the movements of the consumer price index. Those outlays will rise automatically, well beyond the 5% limit that Ford proposes, unless Congress actively votes to hold them down, and there are few things that a liberal Democratic Congress would be less likely...
Ford: A one-year moratorium on all new spending except in the energy field. Also a 5% limit for 1975 on federal pay raises and cost of living increases for Government workers, retired military personnel and Americans on Social Security...
...could provide the technology for such grandiose enterprises as the $5 billion truck-manufacturing complex on the Kama River. In light of this hunger for credits, Moscow was stunningly humiliated when the Senate tacked an amendment onto an Export-Import Bank bill setting the paltry $300 million limit on the amount that would be available to the Soviets. It was probably this amendment, sponsored by Illinois Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, even more than the emigration amendment tacked onto the trade bill by Washington Democrat Henry Jackson, that finally prompted the Russians to scuttle the trade agreement. Kissinger, who opposed...
...Senate votes to amend the Export-Import Bank bill to limit credits to the Soviet Union to $300 million. With the U.S. economy in danger, supporters of the measure argue, Americans are unlikely to favor mass subsidization of the Soviet economy...
Foreign Student Limit...