09/26/1976
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"This legislation represents a compromise in the best sense of the term."
"This bill would suspend until June 30, 1977, the present duties on zinc ores and concentrates and zinc-bearing materials."
"The cost of these benefits to the Government in terms of revenue loss would be about $130 million."
"Failure to do so will mean that the Congress will in the aggregate...add over one and a half billion dollars to the Federal deficit in 1975."