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Still, there was plenty of activity outside the committee room. Reported TIME Capitol Hill Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "To the corridors of the Longworth Office Building flocked senior Administration officials and top Washington tax lobbyists. They huddled in dark corners with anxious conferees to check the latest status of the 126 individual points before the joint committee. Arms were being twisted and deals being made. An example was the special tax deduction for companies with personnel based overseas. The House version cut the tax liability of such firms by $545 million; the Senate break was a more modest $310 million. This...
...victory, reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, came only after some important private maneuvering by Jim Wright. Although he personally favored keeping the embargo against Turkey, he felt that as Democratic leader he must back the Administration's pro-Turkey policy. First he tried to draft a compromise acceptable to Brademas and others who favored Greece rather than Turkey. Brademas agreed to a one year suspension of the embargo if Turkey would take positive steps to end the Cyprus stalemate. The President rejected that, however, arguing that it "would be like putting the Turks on parole. It would offend...
...come to the Senate floor at all if Frank Church, the Foreign Relations Committee chairman-to-be, had not backed out of an agreement to support it. The story of how and why Church changed his mind provides an illuminating view of Congress at work. TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil reports...
...debate went on, reports MacNeil, "I was struck by a the extraordinary range, for good and ill, of the talents and tempers of the Senators. On one hand, there were members who scarcely concealed their fears sand self-serving cravenness on this difficult vote. On the other hand, there were men of patience, understanding and quiet courage in both camps...
...when the final arguments had been heard and the lobbying had ceased, all of the Senators were swept up by the same realization. Says MacNeil: "The mood in the great hall as the roll was called was one of awe. Rarely is a vote so important that those present fall into such a silence, and there has not been one in Congress like this since the House Judiciary Committee, in a similar hush, voted the first article of impeachment against Richard Nixon...