Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John L. Courtney calls himself a "reform candidate." He feels the present city council has been neglectful in serving the public...
...other cities they wouldn't be called independents--these old-style incumbents riding their conservative friendship-building ways into office election after election. If Cambridge was a normal town the "independents" would be the liberal, reform-minded mavericks, and this group of all white, all male traditional politicians would be the ones on the slate...
That impression has been strengthened still more by the fact that the lawmakers have pushed into 1978?an election year for all Congressmen and 33 Senators?some of the rougher fights: Panama Canal treaty ratification, welfare reform, tax reform. Says Massachusetts Democrat Gerry Studds: "We don't really have a great deal to show so far. The big issues have either not been addressed or are unresolved...
...Congress failed to face up to some other heavy challenges, it was not always to blame. Senator Byrd did the President a favor in postponing Senate action on ratifying the Panama Canal treaties, since the required two-thirds majority was not yet in sight. Welfare reform got bogged down in the long debate over energy. With Carter's assent, tax reform too was put off until at least next year...
Long is a pivotal figure in two pieces of legislation that may prove to be the most important of Jimmy Carter's first term in the White House: energy conservation and tax reform. Cater has delayed his tax package until next year so that the energy plan can be completed this session, but when the proposals do get to Congress, Long will probably have more to do with their final shape than any other legislator. Right now, as the Senate's spokesman in the Joint House-Senate Committee on Energy, he is at the center of the struggle to hammer...