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Packwood: tax reform still alive due to TRAC. (Robert Packwood; Tax Reform Action Coalition)
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Daily News Record
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June 3, 1986
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Packwood: Tax Reform Still Alive Due to TRAC WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The retail, apparel and textile industries were credited Monday with keeping tax reform alive, but were warned by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood (R., Ore.) to continue aggressive lobbying to insure tax reform passage.
Packwood appeared before the Tax Reform Action Coalition (TRAC), which is composed of such industry heavyweights as Federated Department Stores, Inc.; General Mills Inc.; K mart Corp.; the American Apparel Manufacturers Association, and the American Retail Federation.
"You all (TRAC) were the first group in support (of the tax bill)," Packwood said. "We could not have done it ...
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