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...84th Congress, in its second session, was an unwanted political child. It was born last January amid dire predictions that it would grow up as a ne'er-do-well in the broken election-year home of party-style Democracy and Republicanism. But it adjourned last week with surprisingly good grades in conduct...
...constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel and the members of the 84th Congress scattered to take up their cam paign cudgels...
...That Stuck. The Democratic 84th, glowed House Democratic Leader John McCormack, was "one of the most constructive Congresses in history." Re publican Leader Joe Martin was less ex travagant, but conceded: "It has been a hard-working Congress. It has enacted many meritorious measures, but it has failed to come to grips with many others." Whenever the 84th got too blatantly political, it was slapped ba-k. The Presi dent made his veto stick on the Southern-Democratic-sponsored natural gas bill, al though he was "in accord with its basic objectives," because he got a strong whiff of "arrogant...
...Remember. On foreign aid, the 84th was unconvinced and unconvincing: last week it authorized the spending of $4 billion, some $900 million less than the Administration had originally thought necessary. On domestic legislation, the Congress was sometimes more generous than the Administration thought wise: it expanded the 21-year-old Social Security program, added disability benefits at the age of 50, forced on the Defense Department more money ($900 million) than it wanted for the Air Force. The two bills for which the 84th will be longest remembered: the $33 billion highway construction program, biggest public works project...
...amiable, easygoing 84th Congress enacted more than 800 public laws-many of them minor, but in their sum total making a record that both Democrats and Republicans would find useful during the coming campaign...