Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The bill gives Nixon the sweeping authority he had requested to order nationwide gasoline rationing and a wide variety of other conservation measures. But the President, supported by the oil industry, objects to a provision that would roll back the prices of nearly 30% of the crude oil produced in...
At his nationally televised news conference last week, the President contended that the rollback would deepen gasoline shortages, presumably by discouraging oil companies from stepping up exploration and production. Supporters of the provision say that it would knock gas prices down as much as 4? per gal. and still give...
The improved outlook prodded the Senate to scuttle temporarily the Emergency Energy Act, which would have given President Nixon authority to ration gasoline. An odd political alliance-Democratic liberals, Republican conservatives and ardent environmentalists-voted decisively to send the bill back to a House-Senate conference committee. This week the...
That provision was opposed not only by oil-state Senators like Louisiana's Russell Long but also by many liberals who considered the plan unworkable. The environmentalists, led by Wisconsin Democrat Gay lord Nelson, were aghast at another provision that would have delayed until 1979 the imposition of "clean...
The President also asked Congress to forget the Emergency Energy Act that got bogged down before the Christmas recess because of disagreement over taxing oil companies' "excess profits." Instead, Nixon wants Congress to whip through a "basic bill" that would make the Administration's fuel-allocation and conservation...