Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late in June, ailing Bob Taft looked at work done by the 83rd Congress and made a blunt, Taft-like observation: "It's not much of a record." Then he added: "But there was the problem of a new Government, of getting turned around." This week, as members of the 83rd were turning toward home, the two parts of Bob Taft's summation could be combined into one: the 83rd had made a slow, but not a bad start...
...Congress pushed through an impressive list of major bills (see box). By reducing spending, stopping the expansion of Government, it made the critical turnaround from 20 years of New and Fair Deals. But the 83rd took no broad, policymaking action on such basic issues as taxes, trade, agriculture and labor. These failures caused some Republican disappointment and elicited some Democratic jeers. The record of the 83rd, however, was a lesson in how hard it is to change the direction of the U.S. Government without rocking the boat...
...foreign-aid programs diminish, many a hardheaded U.S. businessman has begun to proclaim that free-world nations must be allowed to sell more goods in U.S. markets. On Capitol Hill, however, hostility to this point of view has been vocal and widespread. Gloomy free-traders even predicted that the 83rd Congress would refuse to grant Dwight Eisenhower's request for a one-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which permits the President to lower U.S. tariffs in return for similar concessions by foreign countries. Three weeks ago the House gave pessimists a pleasant surprise by voting...
...American Bar Association, set out five years ago on a crusade to save the Constitution by amending its treaty-power provisions. Among the allies he enlisted was Senator Bricker, who introduced his now-famed resolution in September 1951, and reintroduced it in the first days of the 83rd Congress...
Where the Issue Stands. When the Bricker Resolution popped up in the 83rd Congress, Dwight Eisenhower and his Cabinet took a hard look at it and decided to fight it. Secretary Dulles and other Eisenhower officials last April rode up to Capitol Hill to appear before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Crux of their arguments: this is no time to throw a monkey wrench into the country's foreign-relations machinery. There is no need for safeguards against such treaties as the Human Rights Covenant, said Dulles, because the Administration does "not intend to become a party to any such...