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...Senate tried to solve the problem last April when it approved a bill sponsored by Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff (D. Conn.) which allowed everyone who pays college tuition costs to receive a credit on his income tax. Ribicoff had introduced his plan in several earlier sessions, but it had never been close to passage before last year, when Senators began feeling pressure from their constituents. However, tax leaders in the House agreed with criticism which had been offered in the Senate, and the Ribicoff bill died in committee. Senate liberals had condemned the plan as "class legislation" since...
Gleason explained that there is tremendous pressure in Congress to get more federal money to college students. He said that the much-discussed Ribicoff bill, which would provide income tax reductions to student's families, is not the answer...
...dynamo," says Gardner. Breezy and humane, she is also a tough in-fighter known in the cautious corridors of government for her outspoken skill in dealing with timid planners. "She's the most sophisticated bureaucrat in the business," says Connecticut Senator and former HEW Secretary Abe Ribicoff, "a do-gooder who really knows...
...Abraham Ribicoff pooh-poohed the study, saying that the reasons for racial violence were already well-known. "We must end the eternal search for consensus," said Democrat Ribicoff, "and exercise real leadership...
...considerably, but not irreparably. Money can help to salvage them. Chicago's Hauser figures that an additional $20 billion a year in federal funds over the next decade should do the job; Harvard Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew sets the sum at $25 billion a year; the Senate's Ribicoff subcommittee puts it at a neat $1 trillion. That kind of money, of course, even over a long period, does not come easily-nor is it all that easy to spend it wisely...