Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the first, the 90th Congress has suffered from a decidedly schizophrenic personality-free-spending and liberal in the Senate, tight-fisted and curmudgeonly in the House of Representatives. Last week, when the long-pending Truth-in-Lending bill came to a vote in the House, the roles were reversed. Where the Senate last summer diluted the measure to assure its passage, the House not only clapped back everything that had been stripped from it but broadened it considerably...
When the Truth-in-Lending bill goes to conference committee with the Senate, the previously timid upper chamber will find that the House has grown markedly militant, fed by favorable publicity and heavy public approval. Five consumer measures have already been passed by the 90th Congress, and more are on the way-prompting Lyndon Johnson, in his State of the Union message last month, to describe it as "the Consumer Congress." For the time being at least, the American consumer reigns as king of Capitol Hill...
...know little to guide policy and reform," says Sizer. "Yet the Federal Government is spending a tiny sum on basic inquiry--and the 90th Congress appears ready to cut even that...
There was no conflict between the two loyalties during the expansive days of 1965 and 1966, when Congress and President were committed to an eradication of domestic ills. The 90th Congress, which is far less inclined toward constructive action, brought a different mood to Capitol Hill, and Johnson appeared ready to bend with the prevailing breezes of caution and negativism. While the President pointedly avoided ringing the alarm bell after last summer's riots-or indeed doing much of anything at all-Gardner, always the most candid man in the Administration, eloquently voiced his own concern...
That is precisely the problem, particularly in L.B.J.'s low-scoring innings with the niggardly 90th Congress. As he presented the first of a dozen new legislative programs to Congress last week, Johnson was clearly avoiding the temptation to swing away; he chose instead to punch out a few Texas leaguers...