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...time 2% increase in prices. But the Democrats and many economists believe that his plan would create a ripple effect that would go on for years, adding more than 2%. In contrast, Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, estimates that the Ullman plan would add only .6% to prices by the end of 1976 and 2.1% by 1980. Still, for all of their differences on energy, there is enough common ground to allow Ford and Congress to work out a settlement by the President's deadline...
...Even in politics, every force must have a counterforce; and Oregon's Congressman Al Ullman, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is emerging as the locus of the power opposing Gerald Ford...
...action infuriated House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman. Said he: "This is a serious tactical mistake. We are really playing Russian roulette with our own careers. What the people want is decisive leadership. Depletion is not even germane to this bill." If Congress is still wrangling over a tax measure in May, agreed another Democrat, "the President will be kicking our brains...
...main complaint that Ford and his advisers would probably make about the Wright-Pastore program is that it does not promise to cut U.S. oil imports sharply enough. As it happens, the feeling is shared by at least one powerful Democrat, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman. The Wright-Pastore plan, he says, is "a Milquetoast program that doesn't do anything. Our position has to be tougher, much tougher...
...same bull-like intransigence that carried him to the peak of the labor movement. He has written every member of the House and Senate to plug the counterproposals of the AFL-CIO. The federation's six lobbyists in Washington are putting special pressure on Oregon's Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is writing the key legislation. Every Monday, lobbyists from 30 or so of the federation's affiliated unions sit down with AFL-CIO representatives to coordinate their onslaught on Capitol Hill. The 51 state federations...