Word: mansfield
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Subdued Greetings. Kennedy's return to the Senate might have seemed a welcome opportunity to plunge back into his duties. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield greeted him: "Come in, Ted. You're right back where you belong." But Kennedy sat seemingly distracted and depressed at his front-row Senate desk as summer tourists crowded the galleries for a glimpse of him and his colleagues offered subdued and embarrassed greetings...
...Republicans will probably still have a tough time finding a candidate of stature to contest Kennedy's Senate seat next year. In the Senate proper, his future may be unaffected. Members are notably tolerant of all kinds of peccadilloes by fellow Senators. "After all," noted Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield last week, "even a politician is human...
...extension of the $8 billion income-tax surcharge, the Government's prime anti-inflation program. The extension bill has been blocked in the Senate by Democrats who are determined to hold it as a hostage until the Administration agrees to significant tax-reform measures. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and the members of the Democratic Policy Committee suffered a setback earlier when the Senate Finance Committee reported out the House extension bill intact. But last week they received welcome reinforcements. The help took the form of action by the potent House Ways and Means Committee on a tax package...
Price of Reform. Delighted by the House committee's action and by the probability of a House floor vote before the summer recess begins Aug. 13, Senate Democratic leaders lost no time in pressing their new advantage. Mansfield offered to extend the surtax promptly, but that would take it only to the end of November. A further extension vote by the Senate, he said, would come only after the Ways and Means reform package had made its way through both the House and Senate to the President's desk. Republicans denounced the proposition, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen...
...Mansfield's hope is that the House Ways and Means Committee, which is working on its own plan to revise the tax structure, will get its version of reform passed by the House and the Senate before Congress goes on vacation Aug. 13. Administration economists contend that if the bill is delayed until fall, the battle against inflation may be lost altogether. While the tax will continue to be withheld from paychecks until a decision is made, the wait for final approval, say Treasury experts, undercuts their efforts to slow inflation and brake the economy. On the other hand...