European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine a1 Ullman the mood is for a breakthrough in tax Russell Long i  keep anybody Rich from getting r by Donald Roth Berg associated press Ussell b1lliu Long paced the floor in the his expressive face showing pain at the injustice of it take away the lax benefits Tor t business from the he and it would do just for those poor souls who Are out of work in this the senior senator from Louisiana is not Given to rhetorical but As chairman of the Senate finance he is one of the two men in Congress whose ideas about taxes matter most to the millions who contribute to the internal Revenue the other a his counterpart in the Al Ullman of both Ore both generally support president and jointly they steered the recent billion lax Cut through they dont always see Eye to and sometimes when the espouse the same end they differ on the when president Carter wanted to drop a special Ness tax credit along will the Iso income lax rebate he originally asked Long opposed it while Ullman favored eliminating the it was dropped from the final and when human favored tax incentives to Small Busi Nesses to create More Long argued for giving them to Large corporations he this would provide Long ult i to think of Tutu Elf at an populist in the style of Bil Huey but Russell Long a populist with a Miil Fon Dollar Trust fund and Oil Long and Ullman Are As different As a Louisiana Bayou is from the rugged country of Eastern but from Lime to time this they will Alt across a Confer ence table from each other in a crowded room in the Ca Pitol and determine the Fate of much of president Carters legislative whether Carter wants to change the welfare system or rewrite the income ass a major Portia of Bis pro Gram will fall under the jurisdiction of the committees headed by Long and not Only will their two committees do the major work of redrafting legislative proposals sent to Congress by the White but after the House and Senate have Long and Ullman will Lead the delegations thai must work out differences Between the Bills passed by the two these conference committee sessions often Are the scene of some of the most intense lobbying on Capitol and when the Senate and House Bills differ the conference sessions can became tests of strength be tween the two the Constitution requires that tax Bills Start in the two years the Senate took the House Bill and on a Long list including some pet ideas of the Chni run of the finance for Wilbur Mills chaired the House ways and Mains committee and dominated conference committee but after decades As one of the truly powerful men in Mills got to know the bottle and a strip per named Fame human Wei chairman of ways and he had been but Ibe Way Mills ran the being 2 want much different Titan being just before the conference committee was to begin work on the House and Senate versions of the 1875 lax Ullman was interviewed on National he was asked about All those Senate we think Many of the amendments cannot be Justi we think there is a real danger in being irresponsible Here and doing the things hat might Lead to an inflationary spiral Many of the Senate amendments will be Cut Plain it was Challenge that Russell Long was pre pared to and what emerged from the conference committee looked a lot More like the Senate Bill than the House Ullman Learned and most observers fell that the House version prevailed in the conference on the 976 tax and theres less Lough 1 like Torii web senator says Doerntge into conference la nuke Yon took the world would be great place if everyone was like Al my u4 the senator was relaxing in one of those hideaway offices in the Capitol that Are reserved for the most senior and most powerful Kuey Longs picture is on a the son now looks like an older version of his Huey was lean and bad curly hair who was elected to the Senate at age b his once curly hair is thin and Gray and Hes put on some july 1977 Huey Long had been in the Senate Only four years when he was shot to death in the mate Capitol building in Baton his widow succeeded which makes Russell the Only senator whose father and Mother preceded him in the As a did Russel Long Ever dream of being any thing but a politician 1 never thought of myself As being a senator or even a governor in my fathers he was a very dominant personality and a dominant personality tends to make the children i i still perhaps have a my ambition in my fathers lifetime was to be the son of the i thought he would be the president of the United slates some i thought hed be the great est president of All Lone and Ullman will face off several times this year in conferences to resolve differences Between House and Senate versions of the lax provisions of Carters Energy the presidents proposal for higher gasoline taxes As a Means of discouraging consumption is an idea that was offered two years ago by it was defeat the major confrontation Between the two chairman is Likely to come next year when Congress acts on welfare Reform and any major rewriting of the tax Ullman agrees with Carter that the time come to dote tax know hot that Benefit the the mood is Lor a major breakthrough in lax be tax Reform was a major Issue in Carters presidential the weekend before the election he spoke in new Orleans end told the crowd he would fight to close the Long was on the he said some Nice things about didst he the senator nonetheless the Carter speech sounded More like a recitation of the proposals the Senate rejected on langs he concedes his populism is not the same As his a wanted it Sway from Towse who bad it i  keep anybody Rich from getting but Long believes Congress should declare a National objective thai no one in this land will be hed share the wealth through employee Stock pen Sion plans and profit the average worker would have an estate of his he hed be Able to leave something to his children after the Good lord Zalut him the stars and 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