Word: moynihans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
Indeed he does. Reaction was so intense that the Oregon Senator's colleagues urged him to back off. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan deplored the idea because it would levy the tax retroactively on bondholders who had bought securities under the assumption that they would be tax exempt. Minnesota Senator David Durenberger circulated a letter signed by himself and nine other Senators on the 20-member Finance Committee decrying the "devastating impact" of Packwood's provision...
When then-Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Moynihan first drew national attention to the teenage pregnancy problem in his famous report in 1965, Blacks and liberals accused him of racism. Until recently, Blacks suppressed any discussion of the deterioration of the Black family for fear of giving ammunition to those who had always blamed Blacks for their own difficulties...
January is when the mail brings Christmas bills, and so the authorities began taking another look at the new law that Senator Pat Moynihan described as "a suicide pact." Although it had a beautiful simplicity, with its annual series of automatic budget cuts, nothing could possibly be that simple. The interest on the national debt had to be paid in full, for example, and if the Pentagon had just signed a contract to buy a million widgets, it would still be obligated to pay even if it canceled the contract. O.K., these were exempted...
Senator Pat Moynihan asked Comptroller General Bowsher, at a hearing last week, whether the various exemptions did not mean that the vulnerable areas of domestic spending will actually have to be slashed by a devastating 25% next year and vulnerable defense outlays by perhaps 18%. "That's in the ball park," said Bowsher, thus conjuring up a ball park stripped of seats, gates and outfield fences...