Word: republicanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophomore Republican Congressman from Iowa hog-tied Congress into passing two amendments to the Civil Service Reform Act, reducing Government employees by 29,000 and thereby bringing bureaucracy to a grinding halt. There should be more legislators like James Leach...
...more gasoline. Said Brown: "May will be the worst; in June things will improve." Brown could not resist one extra dig at Carter: "Many people actually thought that the President was punishing California because of me. I don't believe that." Then he turned over the microphone to Republican Senator S.I. Hayakawa, who promptly made the Marie Antoinette remark of the year: "Let gas go to $1.50, even $2 per gal. A lot of poor don't need gas because they are not working." Hearing that, Brown gingerly edged away from the microphone and headed for home...
Denouncing the budget as a "sham," House Republicans tried to clobber it with amendments. One of them was for a $523.4 billion budget with a deficit of $15.2 billion and a tax cut of $6.5 billion. This was defeated 228 to 191. Then came a proposal for the spending of $526.9 billion with an $18.7 billion deficit. The measure was voted down, 218 to 198. New York Republican Jack Kemp proposed indexing individual income tax brackets to offset inflation in 1979 and cutting income taxes by 10% in 1980. By 229 to 182, the House said...
...major test of Jimmy Carter's ability as a national leader. Even now his personal prestige could hardly be more completely on the line. He phoned Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger last week, offering them extensive private briefings on the accord. (So far, none of these Republican notables has offered to join the pro-treaty drive.) On the morning that the U.S.-Soviet agreement was announced, Carter was up at dawn to sign letters to all 100 Senators, assuring them that SALT II will reduce the danger of nuclear war. He intends to speak out frequently...
...American companies to tougher standards overseas than competing foreign firms must meet. Kennedy-Metzenbaum would aggravate the problem. Though big U.S. companies would be stopped from buying up others at home, foreign investors would be allowed to come in and continue acquiring almost as much as they want. Said Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, a Judiciary Committee member who has fought hard against the bill: "We are at a time in our history when we should be doing all in our power to make it easier, not harder, for our corporations to compete on an international basis." Senator Jacob...