Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear by now that the 90th Congress is in no mood to attack the urban crisis. Thus the 90th probably reached its high-water mark last week on aid to the beleaguered cities: the Senate gave President Johnson most of the money he requested for model cities and rent supplements, while the House of Representatives reversed itself to give belated approval to a two-year, $40 million rat-control measure...
...Negative 90th. Most Americans looked to Washington for action. There was little indication, however, that either the President or the Congress-which is becoming known as the "negative 90th"-was of a mind to propose any major attempt to improve the lot of the slum dweller. Under the chair manship of Mississippi's archsegregationist James Eastland, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued hearings on the causes of the disturbances, as it considered a House-passed antiriot bill, doing nothing to assuage critics' fears that it was more concerned with repressing slum violence than averting it. The committee called...
...most noteworthy characteristic of the 90th Congress has been its time-consuming concern with internal organization and related matters, such as campaign financing and ethics. Although this preoccupation has delayed much essential business, a Congressional reform on its own Capitol Hill architectural policies would justify the time spent...
...90th Congress has consistently shown its lack of interest in new civil rights legislation and the anti-poverty program. Meanwhile, the people of Harlem continue to have no voice in the House of Representatives. This situation is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future...
...Relations War. Initially, the Quie measure seemed assured of House passage by a coalition of Republicans and Southerners eager to reduce Washington's influence. But Lyndon Johnson prizes his education program above all other accomplishments. Although the President has been relatively cautious in applying presidential muscle to the 90th Congress, he decided to go all the way to defeat the Quie substitute. He publicly attacked the measure as "fanning the church-public school controversy," applied personal pressure to the Texas delegation and sanctioned a public relations offensive by White House aides and Cabinet members. New York Republican Charles Goodell...