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...leaders of the movement span the political spectrum. They include Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri, both moderate Democrats, Senator Bob Kasten of Wisconsin and Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, both conservative Republicans. In the Senate last week, Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood began hearings on at least three different taxreform packages, predicting flatly, "There will be a tax-reform bill this year." If there is not, declared Delaware Republican William Roth, the committee's first witness, "we will have in this country the tax equivalent of the Boston Tea Party, except that...
...income individuals as well) from piling up deductions so that they pay no federal income tax at all. Many highly profitable corporations have been able to do just that. Still, most of the reformers consider this a cop-out that would hinder enactment of fundamental changes. As Bradley told Packwood's committee: "If we reform the system, we won't need a minimum tax." To adopt one, he claimed, would be "an admission of failure." The minimum tax, however, has won general approval in the Senate, which passed a nonbinding resolution endorsing the principle, and has some 55 sponsors...
...common thread in this network of bigotry is the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist organization in Hayden Lake, Idaho, that Mathews and Yarbrough belonged to before breaking off and forming their own action-oriented splinter group. In December, Oregon Senator Robert Packwood and his family received police protection after an informant told the FBI that the Aryan Nations planned to assassinate Packwood, a strong supporter of Israel. Aryan Nations and its "Church of Jesus Christ Christian" are run by Richard G. Butler, 66, a former flight engineer who moved to Idaho from California in 1973. Butler has claimed to have...
...printed proposal, they produced a rebellious mood in Congress. Reagan's Republican allies, who control the Senate, took the lead in insisting that the President did not stand a chance of winning slashes in civilian outlays unless he also agreed to some significant slowing of military spending. Bob Packwood of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, let it be known that his committee is willing to approve cuts in civilian spending going even beyond those that Reagan asks--but only on condition that defense outlays be chopped too. John Heinz of Pennsylvania implied that voting for deep cuts...
Dole's selection as majority leader had a domino effect on key committee chairmanships. Oregon's Bob Packwood, a frequent Reagan critic, will succeed Dole as head of the Finance Committee, wielding power over the Administration's tax-reform plan when and if it is sent to Capitol Hill. "I sort of like the tax code the way it is," Packwood told the Washington Post last week...