Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than a dozen other special-interest bills were barely quashed during the final hours. Among them: an act to exempt the maritime industry from antitrust laws, a reprieve for timber companies that hold $2 billion in unfulfilled federal contracts, an exemption that would allow beer distributors to set up local monopolies and an antitrust waiver for the National Football League. There was even a bill that would exempt Zeke's Floatin' Bait, which is manufactured by a company in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., from a 10% excise tax. Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies...
...Federal budget has cost plenty of jobs. He has "zeroed out" Federal job-creation programs like CETA and the Community Services Administration. In June, the President vetoed a bill by Rep. Henry B. Gonzales (DTex) to aid the embattled housing industry--thus thwarting potential recovery in the slumping timber and construction industries. And the President most recently showed his animus toward "quick fix" job creation by vetoing a $14.1 billion supplemental appropriations bill because it contained a "budget-busting" senior citizens employment program...
...budget has some "fat and flab." Williams is, however, solidly in the President's camp when it comes to the economy, believing that Reagan's budget-cutting policies are crucial to aiding the state's ailing farmers and ranchers and reviving the severely depressed mining and timber industries...
...this lucrative practice. In any case, by liberalizing the rules governing the so-called "H-2" seasonal workers program, S. 2222 actually increases some employers' incentive to hire foreigners. This is especially true in the case of Canadian lumberjacks who cross the border to work in Maine's timber industries...
...effect, the ranchers want protection against themselves. One of the reasons that they are so dependent on public grazing lands is that private ranges have been grossly overgrazed. Environmentalists cite this as proof of their contention that commercial interests are often concerned only with profits. The timber industry has been another offender: it wants to buy national forests, in part because private lands have been overcut. Indeed, environmentalists note, the whole purpose of creating the national forest system was to prevent loggers from stripping the woods bare. "Two-thirds of the timber in this country comes from private land...