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Article: Beer Bill Faces Stout Opposition
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 4, 1987
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The "beer bill" keeps rolling, just like the Andrews Sisters'
famous barrel, but some past supporters have decided not to polka.
Beer wholesalers have been trying for six years to get
congressional permission to assign distribution monopolies in
geographical areas. Consumer groups claim the monopolies would cause
the retail price of beer to skyrocket, and they have enlisted
opposition to the beer bill from the Justice Department, the Federal
Trade Commission and the American Bar Association, among others.
One roadblock to the beer lobby's bill was a study last year by
the Consumer Federation of America, which concluded that prices would
rise if the bill passed. So the beer barons have ...