Date: December 12, 1979
Subject: "Windfall" Profits
Description: Long (D-LA) motion to table (kill) the Ribicoff (D-CT) amendment to set a 20 percent tax on three types of oil: 1) newly discovered, 2) tertiary and 3) heavy oil. The Ribicoff amendment represented a massive expansion of this confiscatory tax.
Result: Motion to Table Failed, 44-53
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