Word: ullman
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...over an energy package, everyone involved seemed to be looking out of the corner of his eye for an escape from the impasse. "I am more than willing to cooperate," Ford told a group of Democratic congressional leaders. "I believe there are more grounds for agreement than disagreement." Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a key Democratic strategist, sounded the same conciliatory note. "We must find a way to avoid confrontation. If Congress and the Executive get into a hassle, this country will suffer...
...Ways and Means Committee, Green denounced the Administration for acting in the tradition of Watergate. "We are being treated in an ultimatum fashion," he complained. "We are beginning this exercise in an atmosphere not of compromise but in one of confrontation." Said new Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, who had tried to persuade Ford to put off the proclamation: "We're extremely disappointed with the President. I wonder if the President might be playing games with Congress...
...trade capital support for the support of those in the Capitol, the outlook for the passage of Ford's economic package is not bright. Republican Congressman Barber Conable, a former Harvard Institute of Politics Fellow, has expressed dissatisfaction with the Ford proposals, and House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman has predicted that Congress will not accept Ford's regressive fuel tax plan as is. Nor have the people shown any inclination to accept the image of Ford as a kindly Santa Claus, dispensing gifts to his little children. In a study conducted by the Gallup organization for Newsweek, only...
Mills announced his intention to take his seat in Congress next week, and pledged full support to Oregon's Al Ullman, the new Ways and Means chairman. Most of Mills' committee colleagues welcomed his return. "He's still the most knowledgeable tax man on the committee," said Illinois Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski. "If he can really lick this thing, he can be one of the most effective members of the committee. It'll be like Socrates having the students sitting at his feet while he passes out tips on taxes." But not unless Mills steers completely clear...
Although the treaty need not require it, Ullman suggests stationing U.S. troops in Israel as part of an alliance. Positioned along the Arab-Israeli borders, the G.I.s might help deter attacks as effectively as they have in South Korea, West Berlin and West Germany. There they act as "trip wires"-their vulnerability serving to convince any potential aggressor of the near impossibility of striking without taking some American lives and thus presumably drawing the U.S. into...