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Explaining Ford's proposal to a House Social Security subcommittee last week, David Mathews, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ran into similar flak. Asked Representative Abner Mikva, an Illinois Democrat: "How do you explain to a factory worker that money withheld from his paycheck, over which he has absolutely no control, is not a tax?" Mikva says that the time has finally arrived "to blow the whistle" on the ideas that Social Security is an insurance program and that the payroll tax is somehow different from other taxes...
...Chicagoans in the Administration have numerous alumni allies in Congress: Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Gale McGee of Wyoming, Charles Percy of Illinois and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut; Representatives Abner Mikva of Illinois and Patsy Mink of Hawaii; and House Parliamentarian William Brown...
...military weapons in fiscal 1976, up 27% from the spending for the current fiscal year and only modestly lower than Ford's original request. Congressmen also overwhelmingly rejected a proposed 70,000-man reduction in the 416,500 U.S. troops stationed overseas. Said Illinois Democratic Representative Abner Mikva: "I'd love to get our troops out of South Korea, but not this year. This year I'm afraid it would be perceived by the North Koreans as an open invitation to attack." Added his Illinois colleague, Democrat Sidney Yates: "This is no tune to reduce troops...
Wallace Constituency. Last fall Jackson pointedly campaigned on behalf of many liberal candidates, including Father Robert F. Drinan of Massachusetts, Allard Lowenstein of New York, Abner Mikva of Illinois and Gary Hart of Colorado, who was McGovern's campaign manager; of the four, only Lowenstein lost. Albeit somewhat reluctantly, Jackson also supported liberal reforms of the party's delegate selection rules at the mini-convention in Kansas City in December. So far, however, his efforts apparently have brought few liberals into his camp...
...more respected Congressmen to be unseated was Chicago's independent-minded Democrat Abner Mikva, 46, the victim of redistricting, his own stand in favor of busing and his association with McGovern, whom he supported even before the Democratic convention. One of the earliest challengers to the organization of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Mikva had made his peace with the "boss." Mikva's Republican opponent, Sam Young, 49, a Chicago attorney active in local G.O.P. affairs, spoke out harshly against "the McGovern-Mikva brand of government," a gamble that paid off among the conservative voters along the North Shore. In winning...