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...Leader Everett Dirksen warned potential no-shows: "By God, you're going to be here." To a man, they were. Thus, after a Dirksen-led filibuster had tied up the Senate for a total of 13 days in an attempt to thwart the Administration's bill to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, the issue finally came to a vote...
Johnson has promised that he will not hesitate to ask for tax increases if he finds them necessary. Indeed, he has already asked for reinstatement of some excise taxes repealed last year. This reinstatement, however, is poor policy. If there was a reason for eliminating the excises, then there is a reason for leaving them that way. Repeal or enactment of excise taxes is a decision about tax structure that should not be changed according to the year-by-year exigencies of fiscal policy...
...Massachusetts' Teachers' Loyalty Oath came under attack Wednesday, when a Salem representative introduced a motion before the Joint Committee of Education requesting its repeal...
...Michael J. Harrington (D-Salem) also urged the repeal of a similar oath which is required of public employees. He was joined in his appeal by members of the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers and of the American Jewish Conference...
Berlin expects the Superior Court to pass the case on to the Supreme Judicial Court, where it will be argued in late April. Because the oath is no innocuous, Berlin believes that its repeal may set a precedent for the repeal of many state teachers' oaths which are more severe...