FROM ISSUE NUMBER 54 - WINTER 1979 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
How easy votes on social security came to an end
WHEN Congressman Al Ullman, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, presented the Social Security Amendments of 1977 to the House of Representatives, he warned that there would be no more easy votes on the subject. What political calculus lay beneath Ullman’s elliptical remark? What political watershed did he believe the social security program to be crossing?
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