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...President's failure to carry the deep South has produced a significant change in the composition of the Democratic majority in the House. Although there are 35 more Democrats altogether, the 89th Congress will have fewer Democrats from the South than the 88th. Many conservative Democrats with much seniority retired or were defeated and will not return. And most of the new committee seats open to Democrats because of their increased majority will be taken by liberals from northern and border states. Thus, in most committees liberal Democrats will be replacing both conservative Democrats and Republicans...
...outlined three bills passed by the 88th Congress which would be significant for students at Harvard. The first bill has doubled the amount of loan funds available under the National Defense Education Act from 19 million to 38 million dollars. This will make it easier to obtain NDEA loans and allow bigger loans to be made...
...House will be far more liberal in the 89th Congress than it was in the 88th. The Senate, liberal enough to approve the entire Kennedy-Johnson program last session, was made slightly more pro-administration by the addition of two Democratic votes and by the substitution of Ross Bass for conservative Herbert Walters in Tennessee. Furthermore, the preservation of the "Class of '58" virtually insures the preservation of a Democratic Senate until...
...When the 88th Congress adjourned without acting on the Administration's Medicare proposal, it also neglected to act on the projected increase in monthly benefits to the twenty million who now receive Social Security. The modest increment in benefit checks had been approved by both Houses, but it was pulled down with Medicare when Sens. Russell Long (D-La.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), and Albert Gore (D-Tenn.)--presumably under orders from the White House--refused to agree in conference committee to any bill without Medicare attached...
Johnson undoubtedly will make much of that legislative record-and with good reason-as he stumps for reelection. Yet such programs cost money, and there is one fact about the 88th Congress that Johnson is not so likely to bring up. In its two sessions, the 88th authorized the spending of more than $200 billion-the first to top that figure, even in wartime...