Word: ribicoffs
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...Twilight Zone." To several Senators, that was not enough, and Senator Long, the bill's floor manager, spent most of the week fighting off efforts to broaden coverage. Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff came up with a $180 million plan to give free, unlimited hospitalization to the aged to protect them against "the crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat...
Congressional pressure is building for legislation that would compel automakers to equip new cars with a host of safety devices. Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff recently accused the auto industry of "dragging its feet in the field of safety measures," urged federal action. Congress has already authorized the General Services Administration to require, beginning in September 1967, 17 different safety items-from shock absorbing steering wheels to exhaust controls-on the 60,000 passenger vehicles it buys annually for the Government. Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson has introduced a bill that would require these same safety items...
...Attended the unveiling of a portrait of Connecticut Senator and ex-Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff, which will hang in HEW headquarters. Following a rendition by the Social Security Chorus, a volunteer choir composed of about 40 employees of the Social Security Administration's office near Baltimore, Johnson made a little talk, wisecracking: "I was told that they were going to hang a U.S. Senator...
Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff has proposed creation of a $100 million federal emergency fund to save the nation's failing commuter railroads, the weakest link in the U.S. chain of rails. To bolster the bankrupt New Haven line, whose trustees are seeking to cancel service covering all of its 26,000 commuters, Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell wants to set up a four-state authority to provide subsidies. Last week New York's Senator Jacob Javits and Congressman Ogden Reid proposed that New York, Connecticut and the Federal Government share in underwriting...
Keppel and his job have grown so important that last week no fewer than three legislators, including Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Kennedy's original appointee as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, introduced legislation to create a separate Department of Education with Cabinet status to consolidate under one roof most Federal Government educational activities...