Word: rider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maudling popped out from the Treasury, just across the street from No. 10; Butler, a grim rider in a black Daimler, was momentarily roused from introspection by the cheers of the crowd; Hailsham, reportedly the hardest-dying, refused to say anything about anything. They came and went, as the sun set and the TV lights rose, then came and went again. Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath went on BBC television to praise Home's "integrity, clarity, judgment and perseverance" and to hope "that all our colleagues will be able to serve with him." Selwyn Lloyd insisted "he will make...
...reaches the floor this week. The proviso would delay the tax cut unless the President, in January's budget message, promises to hold spending to $97 billion for the current fiscal year (v. an already budgeted $98.8 billion) and to $98 billion for fiscal 1965. Without such a rider, said Wisconsin's John Byrnes, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, the tax cut would "set off a time bomb of inflation...
...With the rider, Kennedy feared, the bill would be as good as dead, and his congressional liaison men reported that the vote on it would be uncomfortably close. "If we get five Republicans," said one aide, "that will be four more than I can count now." Worried, Kennedy sent his aides scurrying up to Capitol Hill to line up votes against the amendment. The bill, said Kennedy, "must not be diluted by amendments or conditions. It must not be put off until next year. This nation needs a tax cut now, not a tax cut if and when...
...that the U.S. ought to demand the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Cuba as its price for the treaty, he admitted that even if the Russians complied he would still vote against it. How come, asked one Democrat, when he had said only the week before that such a rider would make the treaty "perfectly acceptable even to its harshest critics"? Well, Barry allowed weakly, he probably was not the treaty's "harshest" critic...
...close to resting the national economic welfare on a game of chance." Addressing the "Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963," a group formed at the Administration's urging and including such big names as Henry Ford II, David Rockefeller and Frederic Donner, Kennedy said Byrnes's rider would inhibit rather than stimulate investment, thus nullifying the purpose of the tax cut. "This nation," he said, "has had a recession on the average of every 42 months since the second World War-or every 44 months since the first World War. By January, it will have been...