Word: ribicoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fever to cool off and calm to reassert itself. It's too much, too soon. It is a good program for the 1990s, not something you have to pass in the summer of 1979. We might create a monster we can't get rid of." Agreed Abe Ribicoff: "We have the responsibility not to rush to judgment...
...these documents and I would expect the truly explosive materials would be among them. [There is one] document in which former Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. Ardeshir Zahedi recorded the support of such prominent figures as [Zbigniew] Brzezinski, [Henry] Kissinger, [Nelson] Rockefeller and Senators [Howard] Baker and [Abraham] Ribicoff for the Shah's move in setting up a military government in the fall...
...redefining the position of education in the federal machinery: (1) the creation of a separate Department of Education; (2) the creation of a Department of Education and Human Services; and (3) uplifting the status of the Education division of HEW. Carter opted for the first alternative. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) got the ball rolling on Capital Hill, and the fight...
...This was the centerpiece of one of the most chaotic finales to a congressional session in memory. As Senators and Representatives fought both fatigue and filibuster, they hurriedly voted on scores of measures in a rush to get home in time to campaign for reelection. Said Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, a 16-year veteran of the Senate: "I don't recall an end of session worse than this...
...special tax deduction for companies with personnel based overseas. The House version cut the tax liability of such firms by $545 million; the Senate break was a more modest $310 million. This difference was resolved in very hard bargaining between an opponent of the tax break, Connecticut's Ribicoff, and an advocate of the measure, Louisiana's Joe Waggonner, the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee. The result: a compromise costing the Treasury $381 million...