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After he was barred from taking his seat in the 90th Congress, Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell naturally went to the federal courts. By so doing, he raised a rare point of constitutional law - not merely whether Powell could or should get his seat back, but when the judicial branch of the Federal Government could or should review the conduct of the legislative branch. The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals last week: the judiciary could review, but it shouldn...
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...
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...