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Kemp-Roth lives. Although the Senate has rejected the original, proposed by Rep. Jack Kemp (R., N.Y.) and Sen. William Roth (R., Del.), the bipartisan version of Kemp’s brainchild easily won Senate approval, 64 to 20, thanks to Senators Sam Nunn (D., Ga.) and Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.). It is included in the Senate’s $29.3-billion tax-cut bill. . . . The new Kemp-Roth, though not as attractive as the original, cuts taxes a total of $142 billion by 1983—as long as the government abides by certain spending ceilings. Next question is whether the new Kemp-Roth will survive a House-Senate conference committee where the Senate’s $29.3-billion tax cut must be reconciled with the $16.3-billion cut approved by the House. Major worry of Kemp-Roth supporters is that Sen. Russell Long (D., La.), who will head the Senate conferees, is not a booster. . . . Jews for Jimmy: Almost all’s forgiven, says Edward Sanders, Carter’s liaison with the Jewish community. Sanders says the Camp David Summit has resulted in an “almost complete turnabout” in the attitude of Jews toward Carter. Sanders’ predecessor, Mark Siegel, resigned earlier this year in protest over the Saudi Arabian plane deal. . . . Carter’s getting the knack. Morning of the vote to override his public-works veto, he invited thirty Republicans over for breakfast. After the vote, which Carter won easily, Majority Leader Jim Wright (D., Texas) paid Carter the ultimate compliment, saying that Carter made “Lyndon Johnson look like a Sunday school teacher.” In voting to sustain the veto, 62 Republicans, including GOP whip Bob Michel, ignored the pleadings of Minority Leader John Rhodes.

Secretary of State Vance is off to Moscow later this month for more SALT talks, and the State Department is so confident the U.S. and USSR will be able to resolve the remaining difficulties that it is already preparing for a Carter-Brezhnev signing on December 15 in Washington. There is speculation that Carter plans to cap his SALT triumph by having Brezhnev address a joint session of Congress. If Brezhnev does, sources in Washington say that at least a dozen conservative congressmen plan to walk out during the speech.

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Kemp-Roth lives. Although the Senate has rejected the original, proposed by Rep. Jack Kemp (R., N.Y.) and Sen. William Roth (R., Del.), the bipartisan version of Kemp’s brainchild easily won Senate approval, 64 to 20, thanks to Senators Sam Nunn (D., Ga.) and Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.). It is included in the Senate’s $29.3-billion tax-cut bill. . . . The new Kemp-Roth, though not as attractive as the original, cuts taxes a total of $142 billion by 1983—as long as the government abides by certain spending ceilings. Next question is whether the new Kemp-Roth will survive a House-Senate conference committee where the Senate’s $29.3-billion tax cut must be reconciled with the $16.3-billion cut approved by the House. Major worry of Kemp-Roth supporters is that Sen. Russell Long (D., La.), who will head the Senate conferees, is not a booster. . . . Jews for Jimmy: Almost all’s forgiven, says Edward Sanders, Carter’s liaison with the Jewish community. Sanders says the Camp David Summit has resulted in an “almost complete turnabout” in the attitude of Jews toward Carter. Sanders’ predecessor, Mark Siegel, resigned earlier this year in protest over the Saudi Arabian plane deal. . . . Carter’s getting the knack. Morning of the vote to override his public-works veto, he invited thirty Republicans over for breakfast. After the vote, which Carter won easily, Majority Leader Jim Wright (D., Texas) paid Carter the ultimate compliment, saying that Carter made “Lyndon Johnson look like a Sunday school teacher.” In voting to sustain the veto, 62 Republicans, including GOP whip Bob Michel, ignored the pleadings of Minority Leader John Rhodes.

Secretary of State Vance is off to Moscow later this month for more SALT talks, and the State Department is so confident the U.S. and USSR will be able to resolve the remaining difficulties that it is already preparing for a Carter-Brezhnev signing on December 15 in Washington. There is speculation that Carter plans to cap his SALT triumph by having Brezhnev address a joint session of Congress. If Brezhnev does, sources in Washington say that at least a dozen conservative congressmen plan to walk out during the speech.