Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Center Stage. The new procedure was a major reason for the House turnabout. Many wavering Congressmen apparently were convinced that most of their constituents opposed the plane and posed more of a threat than the SST's lobbyists. The recorded voting also discouraged Representatives from staying away, which tends to strengthen the liberal forces, since liberals traditionally have been less conscientious about tending to the daily business of the Congress than conservatives. This year's House also contains 56 new members, and of these, 33 voted against the plane. The teller vote was not along party lines. Voting...
While the House rejection of the SST was led by Yates, Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte and Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, the plane's most persistent and effective critic, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, loomed large. The stubborn Democrat (see box, page 13) has fought the plane from its inception; he kept feeding its House critics valuable information and staged a last-minute press conference to complain that the Administration was trying to gag one of the plane's scientific opponents: Dr. Gio Gori, of the National Cancer Institute who first agreed, but later refused, to testify about the potential...
...whether to go along with the House in killing the aircraft. It voted no last year, and the latest House vote is a psychological lift for the plane's opponents, but there are new faces in the Senate too, and new pressures. So the fate of the SST is still in doubt. If the Senate votes to continue funds, some kind of compromise-now wholly unpredictable-would have to be worked out with the House. If the Senate continues its opposition, the Government would seem to be out of the supersonic-transport business, at least for a time. Then...
PROPOSALS for Government funding of an American supersonic transport date back ten years-the same amount of time Senator William Proxmire has spent opposing it. From 1961 to 1969, Proxmire engaged in five losing campaigns against SST appropriations. He has filibustered and conducted hearings, hammering away in a personal crusade against the "perfectly trivial purpose of developing an SST, seeing how rapidly we can already fly people overseas." It was the kind of tenacity that has made Proxmire the bane of defense contractors, pork-barreling colleagues and consumer frauds...
...pushed a truth-in-lending bill through the Senate that had languished for four terms. He uncovered the $2 billion cost overrun on the C-5A and defense contractors' hiring of former high-ranking military officers. Finally, he is close to success in his fight against the SST...