For nearly eight weeks, Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills and his House Ways and Means Committee have listened to testimony about President Kennedy's tax program. With the hearings due to end this week, the committee is about to get down to the actual work of drawing up a tax bill.
During the hearings, the committee received information and advice from some 200 witnesses. Arguing for the Administration program were such officials as Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. Budget Director Kermit Gordon, and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. also spoke up, along with the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of...
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