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...Wirth, who will speak this month at Harvard on environmental concerns, says a tax geared towards conserving energy might be a viable policy option for the president. He says a gasoline tax would be "smart economic policy and smart energy policy...
Says Sen. Timothy E. Wirth '61 (D-Colo.), "they're not going to change defense. They're not going to change Social Security. They're not going to change federal retirees' [pensions]. So what are they going...
...members of Congress are cyncial about Bush's expected proposal, they say they are optimistic about Bush's advisers. Director of the Office of Management and Budget Richard G. Darman '64, for one, is well-respected on Capitol Hill, according to Wirth...
...Darman is very smart," says Wirth. "He understands the problems and he's very pragmatic. I'm sure he'll have a significant influence on the administration...
...Wirth decided to schedule another hearing in the summer, hoping hot weather would make people pay attention to the greenhouse issue. Sure enough, when the hearing convened last June 23, the thermometer read 99 degrees F, a Washington record for that day. The room was packed when James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, turned global warming into front- page news at last. "It is time to stop waffling so much," he declared. "The evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here...