NATIONI/WoRLD The Michigan Daily - Thursday.November 6,1997 -9A ouse bill WASHINGTON (AP) - The House over- whelmingly approved a bill yesterday to make the broadest changes at the IRS in 45 years, with both Republicans and Democrats demanding reform after fall hearings that alleged misman- agement and abuse of taxpayers. j The measure, approved in a 426-4 vote, would *reate a new outside management board at the Internal Revenue Service and give taxpayers more than two dozen new rights. "We're starting to get the IRS off the backs of the American people by passing legislation that Sreformsthe IRS," said House Ways and Means to change IRS, create outside management Chair Bill Archer (R-Texas). The House's top Democrat, Dick Gephardt of Missouri, described the bill as "an important step towards increasing the accountability of the IRS and to shift the balance of power back toward the taxpayer." Despite this huge vote of approval, Senate action is unlikely this year, though House lead- ers, Senate Democrats and the Clinton adminis- tration have been pressing for passage before adjournment this year. The vote comes as an internal Treasury inspector general's report described a range of abuses and mismanagement that the new legisla- tion is supposed to prevent. The 1993 report, obtained by The Associated Press, described problems in the IRS Buffalo, N.Y., district that were strikingly similar to those aired at Senate Finance Committee oversight hearings in September: ® "Numerous complaints" that IRS Buffalo district managers attempted to manipulate statis- tics in order to meet goals so executives would qualify for merit pay. N Collection quotas. The report cited "intense analysis and pressure to achieve statistical goals" in tax collections. 0 Telephones in the Buffalo district taxpayer service division were "fixed" so callers would receive a busy signal while a computer counted them as "answered." These statistics were in turn used to determine managers' performance and their merit pay. "The thing that concerned me is that here you find a report, five years old, that spells out many of the same problems that we see facing the agency today," Finance Chair William V. Roth Jr., (R-Del.), said in a statement. Acting IRS Commissioner Michael Dolan pre- pared a detailed response o1 the report. In ntr view, Dolan turned away suggestions the IRS did- n't respond to problems in the 1993 report. The agency conducted internal dudits on how it mca- snures tax collect ions and found the problems described in the BufIldo report were isolated to that district. 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Aut One piece of paper found in Nichols' Oklahoma bombing home referred to the government raid the two-year anniv on the Branch Davidian compound near get back at the gov Waco, Texas, and contained the Thomas A t another point, Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty seized document wa must be refreshed from time to time 15, 1993, letter pu with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Street Journal thatr The same quote was on a T-shirt "equates federal ag McVeigh was wearing when he was agents exterminati arrested. War II." When that document was shown to "Do you think jurors, Nichols tapped his index finger Journal is a subv firmly on the defense table. His lead Tigar asked FBI ag attorney, Michael Tigar, put his arm "Of course not,"' COtCAIN11E Continued from Page 1A "lines" before being snorted from a smooth surface, such as a mirror. The drug takes longer to reach the bloodstream than crack cocaine - a solid form of powder cocaine with added chemicals - which produces an "almost instantaneous" feel- ing of euphoria. Cocaine has a variety of effects on people, depending on the individual. Once in the bloodstream, the substance may cause the user to feel energetic and at peace. Its effects can be deadly, as cocaine can cause people to have heart attacks and abnormal heart rhythms. Crack cocaine is often smoked through pipes or cigarettes, according to Sgt. Ralph Marroquin, an Ann Arbor police offi- cer assigned to the Livingston And Washtenaw Narcotics Enforcement Team, or LAWN ET. If cocaine is present on campus, most students seem too intimidated by the white powder to go near it. Most students grew wide-eyed when asked if they have come into contact with the drug while at the University. "I have heard gossip, people talking about it," said LSA sophomore Sarabjeet Bedi. 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