Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been all along, has been consistently introduced and ignored. This year three identical bills in the House have attracted over 65 cosponsors, but supporters have been unable to get subcommittee hearings in the House or any sympathy from the two Democratic Senators from California, Alan Cranston and John V. Tunney...
Other ideologues of the movement, however, are going ahead to try to change the society. Tom Hayden, one of the Chicago Seven, tentatively plans to challenge California's Democratic Senator John Tunney in next year's primary-while his wife Jane Fonda returns to a full movie schedule. David Harris, who served 20 months in a penitentiary for refusing induction into the Army, may run for the seat now held by California's liberal Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey. David Dellinger, another member of the Chicago Seven, has plans for an "alternate" newsmagazine tentatively titled Seven Days...
...several officials requested new federal insurance coverage against oil spills. Then there are disruptions onshore, which New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne described as the "helter-skelter development" of pipelines, refineries and storage tanks. Interior's impact statement, critics charge, deals with such problems inadequately. Indeed. California Senator John Tunney called the Government proposals "a nightmarish blueprint for disaster...
PROCEDURE. Many critics pointed out that the Interior Department depends too much on the oil industry for information. Senators Hollings and Tunney suggest that the Federal Government take responsibility for exploring before offering offshore leases for auction. Alternatively, New York State officials suggest that there be much tighter federal controls on all offshore-oil development...
Ford's proposed tax rebate, if approved by Congress, would, as Sen. John V. Tunney (D-Calif.) has pointed out, "give the most relief to those who need it least and the least relief to those who need it most." Under Ford's system, a family of four earning $50,000 a year, hardly the most needy of groups, would receive a sizable $1000 gift; at the same time, a four-person family, barely above the poverty line with a $5000 annual income, would receive a rebate of just $12. So even though an upper-income family would make...