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...predawn moments of a long Washington night, a handful of U.S. Senators wound up the business of the 87th Congress' first session in a mood of frustration and anger...
...87th had labored hard and long-longer, in fact, than any Congress since the Korean War session of 1951. It voted the biggest appropriations in U.S. peacetime history-some $95.8 billion. But the distinguishing feature of the 87th Congress lay not in the hours it worked or the money it spent. Rather, what set the 87th apart was the fact that it was dominated by the House of Representatives, long dubbed the lower branch. In exercising its leadership the House often thwarted the will not only of the Senate but of the man in the White House...
...87th Precinct (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). PREMIERE of a new bullet series. Wherever the 87th precinct is, it looks familiar. Tonight the precinct's supersleuth finds a female corpse floating in the river with a mysterious tattoo on her hand...
Sick of Washington's sultry heat and weary after a long session, the members of the 87th Congress drove toward an adjournment that still seemed a week or two away. Last week's major Capitol Hill action came in the House. There, by a vote of 270 to 123, the homesick legislators passed and sent to the Senate a $3,657,500,000 foreign aid appropriation...
Despite the defeats and the enforced compromises, the Kennedy Administration's legislative record compares favorably with any since the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt. Steered intact through the divided 87th Congress were a $394 million depressed areas bill, an increase in the minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour with expanded minimum wage coverage, an omnibus $6.8 billion housing bill, a controversial feed-grains bill, a huge, eleven-year, $21 billion interstate highways bill. Most of the credit belongs to Larry O'Brien, a man who hates to lose. "We never know when...