Energy Bill Fate Remains Unclear for Shenandoah Valley
Congress debates a national energy plan stalled after 16 months of work. Key points include raising domestic oil prices to world levels, potential taxes with credits, and options like deregulation, rationing, or import measures. The bill also covers utility rate reforms, energy conservation loans, coal conversion, and natural gas deregulation.
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National Energy Plan
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Senate
Shenandoah Valley
Carter
Potomac Edison
Farmers Home Administration
Veterans Administration
Politics by style not issues, finds inconstancies in Congress
A 1978 column reports a Historical Research Foundation study showing voters prize personality and constituent services over voting records. Examples include Timothy Wirth, Gary Meyers, and Tom Downey praised for honesty, accessibility, and local aid, while party labels matter less. The two party system is seen as disarray.
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Washington Star Syndicate, Inc
Washington
Historical Research Foundation
Americans For Democratic Action
American Conservative Union
Congress
House of Representatives
Joe
LeRoy
Colorado
Denver
Timothy E. Wirth
Wirth
Harvard
Stanford
White House
Gerald Ford
Pennsylvania
Gary A. Meyers
Tom Downey
New York
Long Island
Foundation
Carter Hospital Cost Control Bill Defeated Amid Strong Lobbying
A robust lobbying campaign by health interest groups helped sink President Carter’s plan to cap hospital cost growth. The House Commerce Committee replaced it with a Republican voluntary approach, while administration and medical groups clashed with labor and some liberal lawmakers over the proposal and its cost effects. Florio’s district hospital debate shrouded White House pressure claims, and the bill failed to gain broad support or countervailing advocacy.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
House
National Health Insurance
House Commerce Committee
Senate
White House
Dan Rostenkowski
D-Ill
Philan
Rostenkowski
Chicago
American Medical Association
American Hospital Association
Tim Lee Carter
HEW
Joseph A. Califano Jr
AMA
Federation of American Hospitals
Democratic Committee
Albert Gore Jr
D-Tenn
Barbara A. Mikulski
Veterans’ Hospital
District of Wavering
James J. Florio
N.J
Florio
Congress Advances One More Nuclear Powered Carrier
Congress agrees to authorize construction of another Nimitz class nuclear powered aircraft carrier. President Carter opposed the plan, but Navy leaders and lawmakers argue the ship is essential to maintain a fleet of twelve carriers. Newport News shipyard ready to build if contracted by October.
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Congress
Norfolk
Virginia
Mississippi
Carter
Navy
Bennett
Newport News
Ford's Long Knife and a White House Shakeup
Intimates fear Ford will use his half finished memoirs to blame Reagan for his 1976 defeat as publication in May nears. Rafshoon rises in the Carter White House reducing Eizenstat’s liberal program while Mansfield warns Tokyo of Japan fears and Lebanon tensions raise Camp David concerns.
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Field Enterprises Inc
Washington
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Ford
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Reagan
Rafshoon
Gerald Rafshoon
White House
Jody Powell
Stuart Eizenstat
Carter
Eizenstat
Rafshoon- Powell
Powell
Anatoly Shcharansky
Mansfield
Mike Mansfield
Senate
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Japan
Far East
U.S
Soviet Union
Beirut
Camp David
Israel
Egypt
Syria
Lebanon
Palestine
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