Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BELIEVE that most Washington correspondents agree [on] these conclusions about the 83rd Congress...
Without benefit of bulletins or headlines, one of the biggest battles of the 83rd Congress was being noiselessly fought out last week in urgent conferences. At the Treasury Department and on Capitol Hill, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey and Senate finance leaders were arguing about the $275 billion ceiling on the national debt...
Last week the 83rd Congress finally began to move full speed ahead. Working long hours (the Senate one night was in session until two minutes before midnight), both houses faced and dealt with major legislation. The sum of the week's work: a major gain for Dwight Eisenhower's legislative program...
...have given a wet wheat beard for the Benson farm program's chances. Indiana's Charlie Halleck, who has been the Administration's strong right arm in the House, conceded to friends that he was licked. Then the House noisily pulled the biggest surprise of the 83rd Congress by voting down a continuation of rigid 90% of parity price supports on the basic crops. It approved, instead, a system of flexible supports pegged on 82½ to 90% of parity. This was a compromise, but a compromise almost no one expected...
...committee; the Administration would ease up, for the present, on its trade bill demands. With that it was clear that a one-year extension of the present reciprocal trade program is the best the Administration can expect to get out of Dan Reed's committee and the 83rd Congress...