CONGRESSIONAL RECORD--HOUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100170009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 12, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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(e) Section 4(f)(4) of such Code (cross
references) Is amended by striking out "and
Table V in section 3(b)" and inserting in
lieu thereof ", Table V In section 3(b), and
the corresponding table prescribed under
section 3(c) ".
(f) The last sentence of section 6014(a) of
such Code (relating to election by taxpayer)
is amended to read as follows: "In the case
of a married Individual filing a separate
return and electing the benefits of this sub-
section, Table V of section 3(a), Table V of
section 3(b), and the corresponding table
prescribed under section 3(c) shall not
apply."
SEC. 4. (a) Section 3402(b) (1) of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to
percentage method of withholding income
tax at source) is amended by striking out
the table and Inserting in lieu thereof the
following:
"Percentage method 'withholding tpble
Weekly ..................................
Biweekly ................................
Semimonthly ............................
Mont lily_................................
Quarterly-------?----?------`??------_...
Semiannual______________________________
Annual----------------' ?---. ?_-..._._.
Daily or miscellaneous (per day of such
period) ----"?---
Amount
of one
withholding
exemption
$21.20
42.30
45.80
91.70
275. 00
550.00
1,100.00
(b) Section 3402(c)(1) of such Code (re-
lating to wage bracket withholding) is
amended to read as follows:
"(1) At the election of the employer with
respect to any employee, the employer shall
deduct and withhold upon the wages paid
to such employee a tax determined in ac-
cordance with tables prescribed by the Sec-
retary or his delegate, which shall be In lieu
of the tax required to be deducted and with-
held under subsection (a). The tables pre-
scribed under this subparagraph shall cor-
respond in form to the wage bracket
withholding tables which appeared In this
paragraph before the enactment of the Per-
sonal Exemption Amendments of 1967, and
shall provide for amounts of tax in the
various wage brackets approximately equal
to the amounts which would be determined
if the deductions were made under subsec-
tion (a)."
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"(b) DEvuerrzONs.-For purposes of sub-
section (a)-
"(1) The term 'cost-of-living' with respect
to a State means an index of consumer prices
in such State which the Secretary of Labor
shall determine for such State in the same
manner (insofar as practicable) as he deter-
mines the annual average of the Consumer
Price Index (all items-United States city
average) for the United States. Cost-of-liv-
ing for a taxable year shall be determined on
the basis of the calendar year gaoling in such
taxable year.
"(2) The term 'State' includes the District
of Columbia."
(2) The table of sections for such part
VII Is amended by striking out the last
item thereof and inserting in lieu of such
item the following:
"Sec. 218. Adjustment in personal exemp-
tion to reflect cost of living In
State.
"Sec. 219. Cross references"
(d) Section 63(b) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954 (relating to taxable income of
individuals electing standard deduction) Is
amended by Striking out "and" at the end
of paragraph (1), by striking out the period
at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting in
lieu thereof ", and", and by adding at the
end of such subsection the 'following new
paragraph:
"(3) the deduction provided in section 218
(relating to adjustment in personal exemp-
tion to reflect cost of living In State)."
(c) Section 4(a) of such Code (relating
to number of exemptions) is amended to
read as follows:
"(a) DEs'INITIONS.-For purposes of section
3 (including the tables therein)-
"(1) the term 'number of exemptions'
means the number of exemptions allowed un-
der section 151 as deductions in computing
taxable income, and
"(2) the term 'adjusted gross income'
means adjusted gross income as defined in
section 62, minus the deduction allowed by
section 218 (relating to adjustment of per-
sonal exemption to reflect cost, of living In
State)."
SEC. 6. The' amendments made by sections
2, 3, and 5 of this Act shall apply only with
respect to taxable years beginning after the
date of enactment of this Act. The amend-
ments made by section 4 of this Act shall
apply only with respect to remuneration paid
on and after January 1, 1968.
(c) Section 3402(m) (1) of such Code (re-
lating to withholding allowances based on "RAMPARTS" AND ITS ASSOCIAT
itemized deductions) is amended by striking
"
out
$700" and inserting in lieu thereof
"$1,100".
SEC. 5. (a) (1) Part VII of subchapter B
of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1954 (relating to additional itemized de-
ductions for individuals) is amended by re-
designating section 218 as section 219, and
by inserting after section 217 the following
new section:
"SEC.218. ADJUSTMENT IN PERSONAL EXEMP-
TION TO REFLECT COST Or LIVING
IN STATE
"(a) DEDUCTION ALLOWED: If the taxpayer
resides in a State at the end of the taxable
year, there shall be allowed as a deduction
for the taxable year an amount equal to--
"(1) the number of exemptions the tax-
payer is allowed under section 161 for the
taxable year, multiplied by
"(2) the amount (determined by the Sec-
retary or his delegate) which be(sre the same
ratio to $1,000 ae-
"(A) the excess of the cost-of-living for
such State over the coat-of-living for the
State having the lowest coat-of-living, bear,
to
"(B) the Cost-of-living for the state hay-
ing the lowest cat-of-living,
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(Mr. ASHBROOK (at the request of
Mr. WATKINS) was granted permission
to extend his remarks at this point in
the RECORD and to include extraneous
matter.)
Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, on
April 3 of this year I pointed out in the
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Page H3473, that
a report of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities has found that
the Vietnam week program of April 8
to 15 was organized principally by mem-,
bers of the Communist Party. The im-
petus for these demonstrations was pro-
vided by two groups, the Student Mobili.
zation Committee and the Spring Mobil-
ization Committee, in which "Commu-
nists are playing dominant. roles."
The west coast chairman of the Spring
Mobilization Committee operation is Ed-
ward Keating, the founder, publisher,
and editor-in-chief of Ramparts the
magazine which did much damage by
revealing that the CIA had been chan-
neling money to the U.S. National Stu-
dent Association and other groups. Al-
April 12, 1967
though not a Communist Party member
himself, Keating has traveled widely and
made numerous speeches drumming up
attendance for the demonstration
against the United States in San Fran-
cisco on April 15. Of Keating, the House
committee stated:
At a New York City demonstration against
the war in Vietnam held last' November,
Keating called for the Impeachment of Pres-
ident Johnson. He was one of the speakers
at the teach-in on Vietnam held at the
University of California, Berkeley, campus on
May 22, 1965.
Who are Keating's associates at "Ram-
parts?"
Are they essentially in agreement with
the stated policies of such national orga-
nizations as the American Legion, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Jaycees?
Would J. Edgar Hoover welcome them
as applicants for the FBI?
Would you have them teaching an
American Government course to your
children?
Could industry groom them for sensi-
tive jobs in defense work?
The answers are, for the most part, a
matter of individual judgment.
Exclusive, the Washington newsletter
published by Fulton Lewis III has pro-
vided background information on the
various people associated with Ramparts.
According to the Exclusive rundown, the
best interests of the United States does
not appear to be one of their criteria for
judgments, Granting their sincerity of
belief, one must not deny them the right
to disagree, but we must be reserved the
same right to disagree-with them.
The following are the March 29 and
April 5 issues of Exclusive, edited and
published by Fulton Lewis III:
[From Exclusive, mar. 29, 1967]
The article in the February 1967 issue of
"Ramparts" magazine, breaking the sensa-
tional story concerning Central Intelligence
Agency subsidies of private student, labor,
and educational organizations, has already
prompted action by President Johnson to
forbid future channeling of CIA funds into
groups like the National Student Associa-
tion. Still another outcome of the contro-
versy may well be closer congressional super-
vision of the CIA activities in the future.
An analysis of the backgrounds of those
associated with "Ramparts" suggests that
the motivation for the magazine's February
disclosures was to destroy, or at least weaken,
CIA, rendering it incapable of acting as a
deterrent to communism abroad.
Founded in 1962 as "the Catholic journal
of independent opinion", "Ramparts" mag-
azine has no official ties with the Catholic
Church. It is published monthly in San
Francisco and, particularly in recent years,
has been advocating a consistently leftist
philosophy with primary emphasis being
placed on a bitter denunciation of American
involvement In the war in Vietnam,
"Ramparts" magazine's Editor In Chief,
Edward Michael Keating, has made numer-
ous speeches throughout the country criti-
cizing U.S. "Intervention" In both Vietnam
and the Dominican Republic. In addition,
he has been an outspoken critic of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation, frequently
making baseless charges or allegations con-
cerning the work of that Bureau. In Octo-
ber, 1964, Keating public]), Indicated that he
was willing to turn over to the Justice De-
partment information be bad obtained con-
cerning the murder of three civil rights
workers in Ml&iesippi.' In making the offer,
he charged that the FBI had "not done it,
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