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Most of the trumpet calls came from Carter's own party. The House Democratic Caucus repudiated Carter's oil decontrol plan, and House liberals joined Republicans to vote down the proposed federal budget (a vote that was rescinded the next day). Five Democratic Congressmen publicly announced they would not support Carter's renomination and charged that he had "abandoned the promises and hopes of his own campaign." Four of them announced support for the drafting of Senator Edward Kennedy, an idea that Kennedy is doing increasingly little to discourage. A poll released last week showed him beating...
...that Congress needs any such incentive. Having rejected Carter's conservation and stand-by gas rationing proposals, the legislators are now rebelling against his plan to phase out price controls on domestically produced crude oil beginning in June. Carter decided on decontrol in the hope that higher prices would both discourage consumption and stimulate production-and also in the belief that Congress wanted to end controls...
Believing that Congress should not simply oppose, Moffett is also pushing his own plan to force every driver to choose one day a week on which he would keep his car or cars in the garage. The motorist would get a windshield sticker identifying the day he chose not to drive; if caught on the road on the forbidden day, he would be subject to arrest and a fine...
...that is to be Congress's answer to the gas shortage, it leaves a lot to be desired. Carter has told congressional leaders that he doubts the plan is practical...
...Boston. "I'd like to see a system of incentives?say, if we saved money, that money could be split between the insurer and the hospital." Califano and some state regulators also are launching a drive to require that a majority of the directors of any Blue Shield plan be laymen. At present, many Blue Shield plans are dominated by doctors, who, to put it delicately, have no great zeal to question fellow physicians' fees...