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...houses went through the motion of meeting a couple of times. One token meeting of the Senate, with two members present, lasted just three seconds - a speed rec ord of sorts. The week's performance, which included a July 4th holiday, might stand as a symbol of the 88th Congress - the do-nothingest of modern times...
...Goal. The 88th has passed and sent to the President only four items of legislation. One was a measure lifting the already much-raised ceiling on the national debt. The others merely continued existing arrangements: the draft, the Korean war corporation and excise taxes, and the livestock feed-grains program...
...Frontier is fond of blaming the Republicans for the 88th's balkiness. And it is true that the Republicans in Congress, especially in the House, have displayed rare unity this year in opposing the President. Of the 178 Republicans in the House, only one went along with Kennedy's latest request for an increase in the debt ceiling, and only one voted for the Administration feed-grains bill...
...more, President Kennedy himself is to blame for the record of the 88th. The G.O.P. unity that New Frontiersmen grumble about is in part a response to Kennedy's incessant partisanship, his overzealous efforts to play politics with legislation. Kennedy, furthermore, has hurt some of his own most-heralded proposals. For example, he blurred the prospects for tax revision by submitting a budget with an $11.9 billion deficit...
California Congressman James Roosevelt said that the 88th Congress is "not going as well as the 87th." He added that he is not optimistic over the prospects for an education bill or meaningful tax reforms...