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Page 8-B Carolina Review Jesse Helms And The Five Cents Per Gallon Gasoline Tax WHAT’S HAPPEN lNG?...ring...ring...ring... "Governor's press office." “Brent, what’s happening down there today?” “Are you kidding? It's all happening in Washington.” The governor’s press aide, Brent Hackney, was absolute ly right. Raleigh, getting ready for Christmas and New Years, was politically and govemmentally in hiatus. Not so, in D.C., where Sen. Jesse Helms was providing fodder for angry Democrats, homesick Republicans, and editorialists across the country. Sen. Helms held out as long as he could, but the ' - er whelming odds of h political parties and the i i dent eventually won Their victory brought yo. you drive, an additional t cents per gallon on the gasoline that you purchase, plus the three cents state tax added last year. The Washington Report by Congressman Walter B. Jones The “lame duck” session of the 97th Congress came to a halt on Tuesday, December 21. As I have previously stated, the four weeks spent here, for all intense purposes, failed to accomplish what the session was called to do, and that was to pass the necessary appropriation bills for 1983 without resorting to what is becoming more serious each year - the Continuing Resolu tion. By explanation again, this means that those depart ments that have not been legislatively funded through the appropriation process, will be funded at last year’s level. Os the fourteen ap r priation bills which Con ss is obligated to pass, six duferent departments were not acted upon, thereby necessitating the Continuing Resolution. One of the main differences between the Republican Ad ministration and the Democratic Party is that with the unemployment now reaching approximately 11 million the Democratic leadership wanted what was known as a jobs program in this Continuing Resolution, bu . resident Reagan was adamant in his opposition to this jobs bill, and said in no uncertain terms if any public jobs program was contained in the Continuing Resolution, that he would veto same. So, both the Republican version and the Democratic version of this program within the Con gress was dropped from the bill in order to avoid a serious confrontation, causing many government agencies to close down for an indefinite period until a compromise could be reached. Before adjourning, the T louse gave approval to the 5 cents per gallon tax increase on gasoline; however, the Senate had yet to approve this measure, and had engaged in a filibuster on the matter. Althought the President won his position on the public jobs relief program, he lost on the funding of the MX missiles. In retrospect, a tabulation of the won and lost column for President Reagan and the 97th Congress is as follows: Where Reagan Won— Spending cuts-Welfare, food stamp, health, veterans, agriculture and federal retirement programs reduced by 28.4 billion dollars over three years. Tax charges- Federal revenue hiked 98 billion dollars over three years by raising of taxes, closing of loopholes. Housing- Veto of 3-billion dollar emergency housing aid sus tained. 1983 budget-Spending of 770-billion dollars approv ed, with higher defense outlays, deficit of 115-billion. Caribbean aid-Some 350-million dollars targeted for Caribbean nations. Nuclear-weapons freeze- Resolution opposed by Reagan defeated. Where Reagan Lost—Social issues-Measures to curb abor tion, permit voluntary school prayer, limit busing for desegregation blocked. Balanced budget- Constitutional amendment re quiring federal spending to match revenur es failed in the House despite last-minute If you don t drive, just add the tax cost to the price of goods and services delivered to you by the trucking industry. Their victory, presumably, also brought tandem trailers to your highways. Who knows? Maybe the senator carried things too far in his filibuster against the ad ditional gasoline tax. Maybe the country needs the tax to repair failing roads and bridges (it seems the multi million dollar jobs program somehow got lost in the shuffle). But if you look through the smoke everyone else was blowing, maybe the senator had a toehold in something fairly important to this country. Sen. Helms said that one of s he main reasons his Senate mmrades were so angry and ready to vote for the gasoline tax so handily was a “matter Reagan push. Civil rights t Voting Rights Act extended F with stronger enforcement i provisions that Reagan ' wanted. School tuition-Tax ’ credits for private-school tui t tion sidetracked. Anticrime , Reagan bills giving law en ! forcement officials more I leeway in prosecuting crime ’ delayed. 1982 budget-Veto of ! supplemental-appropriations • bill that held down defense i spending overridden. Reorganization- Administration moves to dismantle Energy and Educa tion departments ignored. Vepco Virginia Electric and Power Company’s North An na Unit 1 will be out of service until about April for replace ment of its electric power generator. The generator, located on the non-nuclear side of the unit, was damaged when one of the unit’s three transformers failed. The incident occurred on December 5, at 12:38 P.M., about six hours after Unit 1 had returned to service following an extended outrage for refueling, maintenance and repairs. Vepco and Westinghouse, manufacturer of the transformer, are still in vestigating the cause of the failure. The damaged generator may be replaced by a new generator from Vepco’s North Anna Unit 3 which was cancelled by the company on November 19. In spite of the North Anna 1 shutdown, nuclear generation will still account for about 41 per cent of Vepco’s total energy supply in 1982, virtual ly the same amount the com pany’s four nuclear units con tributed last year. During the first 11 months of 1982, Vepco’s two Surry units have been among the most efficient nuclear plants in the country. Surry units have been among the most ef ficient plants in the country. Surry Unit 1 has operated at a capacity factor of about 80 per cent and Surry Unit 2 at a capacity factor of more than 84 per cent. The national average capacity factor for nuclear units is about 60 per cent. Since coming into ser vice in 1978, North Anna 1 has operated at a capacity factor of 60.3 per cent. Vepco’s fourth nuclear unit, North Anna 2, which under went outages for refueling and maintenance earlier this year, has operated at a capacity factor erf about 50 per cent but that figure is ex pected to improve before the end of the year. The company’s coal-fired generating units have per formed exceptionally well this year, accounting for almost 37 per cent of the company’s total energy supply—an in crease of more than 6 per cent over 1981. The performance of the company’s nuclear and coal-fired units has helped to reduce expensive oil-fired generation from 8 per cent in 1981 to 4 per cent this year. Th* African grosbaak builds communal nests with some times as many as 200 birds making their homes in a single tree of convenience.” “They want to go home,” he said. You can’t help but agree with Helms on that. If the gasoline tax was so impor tant, then why didn’t they ad (PiiaddiirEm DU RACE LL. ! I \ Power... 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Limit 4. 16-23 lbs. 60 Per package. 1 —J shop 9- 9 Daily Shop 1- 6 Sundays W Northside Shopping Center Py**! I II k I If A ll Ml A WPfcll SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICES ■■■ I I ill I Ilf ■HR w Mm k WET.II aooD tnroush THE CHOWAN HERALD dress it before they got into a session of lameducks, brought together obstensibly to settle the Social Security question? Oh, yes, that was the original reason when the president started talking about bringing the Congress back after the election. Social Security. Os course, that was soon set aside-even before the legislators got back to Washington. In fact, the Social Security Commission (the president’s study group to solve the problem and make recommendations) has asked for and received an ex tension on the deadline for their report. Some people have just lost confidence in the Congress of the United States and con sider them-honest, the follow ing is a direct quote from a waitress at breakfast this morning-“...a whole bunch of Thursday, December 30, 1982 gutless crooks.” And if every one of the law makers in Washington is angry with Jesse Helms, well, then, maybe he’s finally done something right. Think about it.
The Chowan Herald (Edenton, N.C.)
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