Word: 90th
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Labor is the largest organized politi cal pressure group in the U.S., but it is neither happy nor effective as it ap proaches 1967. The 90th Congress shows every sign of being the first Congress in many years from which labor has no hope of winning any prolabor legislation at all. Several major strikes in 1966 that greatly inconvenienced the public - including the airline and New York transit strikes - have given labor a tarnished image, and its fracturing of the economic guidelines has not exactly made it popular in Washington. Finally, the U.S. labor movement has fallen to quarreling within...
Senator Abraham H. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) will ask the 90th Congress, when it convenes next January, to enact Daniel P. Moynihan's proposal for an "Office of Legislative Evaluation...
Damned Little Milk. When the 90th Congress convenes next month, nothing will occupy more of its attention than the future shape and direction of the Great Society. There will be demands for expanding it; as Poverty War Commander Sargent Shriver puts it, "We were just about to put the bottle in the baby's mouth, and we find there's damned little milk to give." There will be equally strident demands for contracting it; with the Viet Nam war siphoning off billions of dollars, a big budgetary deficit is in prospect unless spending is cut somewhere...
...achieving its legislative goals in the 90th Congress is concerned, big labor has ample reason for feeling glum. Meany was guilty of understatement when he said that the chances were "pretty dim" to repeal Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley Act (the right-to-work provision), which triggered a long and bitter filibuster even in the liberal 89th. Equally bleak is labor's chance of getting restrictions on construction-site picketing eased. By contrast, the 90th Congress may prove far more receptive than the 89th to further limitations on strikes-such as airline stoppages-that have national repercussions...
Even so, Dirksen refused to give up on the Amen Amendment. "I will not let it die," he said, adding that a national organization is already being formed by such Protestant leaders as Daniel Poling and Billy Graham to carry on the fight in the 90th Congress...