Word: 87th
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...87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal legislation to the floor. The liberal pressure bloc (which coyly masquerades under the name Democratic Study Group) had fought the committee before, and had always lost. This time, they were much better prepared and organized, and the political climate was favorable. They had the unspoken support of President-elect Kennedy, whose own legislative program was menaced by the Rules Committee bottleneck. And counting noses, they seemed...
...Senate launched the 87th Congress with its own version of an ancient liberal-conservative battle, but in contrast with the House's guerrilla war it seemed as pro forma as a Capitol guide's speech. Question at issue: How big a vote should be necessary to restrict Senate debate-and thereby cut off legislation-delaying filibusters...
Last week, as the 87th Congress convened and inauguration neared, the pundits, got out their batons to begin the job of conducting the Administration. Walter Lippmann, who during the campaign had frothed with impatience to reach the New Frontier, now, on arrival, thought it best to make haste slowly. "One good New Year's resolution." wrote he, "is to recognize that both at home and abroad the new Administration will need time to get organized. The Kennedy Administration does not have to improvise and to proceed breathlessly to do things. It needs to deliberate carefully, to plan thoroughly...
...addition to the basic problem of aid to the public schools, other education legislation that should occupy the attention of the 87th Congress includes extending the National Defense Education Act, without the affidavit, to at least four years: exparding the Soviet American cultural exchanges: sending aid to medical schools and loans to universities: creating a youth diplomatic corps and a Youth Conservation Corps...
During the campaign, Democratic orators promised a grand symphony as pure as the lost chord if only a Democratic President was elected to work with the Democratic Congress. But last week, as the various virtuosos of the U.S. Senate began the tune-up for the 87th Congress, the discord sounded hauntingly familiar...