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Wearily, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield announced that the first session of the 90th Congress would recess for four days for Thanksgiving. "Do you think," piped up Delaware's John Williams, "that we'll be able to get Christmas off?" "And in what year?" inquired Maine's Edmund Muskie...
...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...