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...Reported Arizona Too Close to Call Arkansas Bill Clinton (D) David H. Pryor (D) California Edmund G. Brown Jr. (D) Colorado Richard D. Lamm (D) William L. Armstrong (R) Connecticut Ella T. Grasso (D) Delaware Joseph R. Biden (D) Florida Robert Graham (D) Georgia George Busbee (D) Sam Nunn (D) Hawaii Too Close to Call Idaho John V. Evans (D) Too Close to Call Illinois James R. Thompson (R) Charles H. Percy (R) Indiana Iowa Robert Ray (R) Too Close to Call Kansas Too Close to Call Nancy L. Kassebaum (R) Kentucky Walter Huddleston (D) Louisiana J. Bennett Johnston...
...which called for slashing income tax rates by 33% over the next three years. On a virtual party-line vote, the Senate two weeks ago killed Kemp-Roth, 60 to 36. But, with barely a blush, the Democrats last week rammed through an amendment introduced by Georgia Conservative Sam Nunn that could cut taxes $164.5 billion by 1983. The measure differed from Kemp-Roth by a provision that it go into effect only if specified decreases in federal spending and the budget deficit were achieved. Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware promptly signed on as a co-sponsor and laughingly...
...billion in tax cuts acceptable. By contrast, the tax-relief distribution in the Senate bill was more to Carter's liking; it included a slightly better break for middle-and low-income families. But Carter objected strenuously to the Senate's inclusion of tuition credits and the Nunn amendment, and to the $29.3 billion size of the slash, which he feared would fuel inflation...
...room, lobbying for Carter's position that an increased share of the tax relief go to lower-and middle-income taxpayers. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal was consulting constantly with Congressmen; among other things, he warned them that a tax bill would be vetoed if it contained, as the Nunn amendment did, "restraints" on future federal budgets. The committee bowed to the pressure and substantially watered down the measure. For a time, however, it seemed that Congressman Barber Conable, a New York Republican, might take the issue back to the House floor, where it had considerable backing...
Under the Nunn plan, a typical four-member family with a $20,000 annual income would pay $769 less in taxes by 1983. Previously the Senate bill provided only a one-year reduction...