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...then, under a permissive resolution already sent over by the Senate,* headed for home. That left the money bill before the Senate on a like-it-or-lump-it basis-and the Senate did not like it at all. For one thing, the House-approved bill knocked out the backdoor financing provisions in four major Administration measures. For another, the House had deleted a proposal to increase each Senator's office payroll by $5,000. But about all the Senate could do was sputter. Cried Republican Leader Everett Dirksen: "This is indeed an outrage perpetrated on the Senate." Democratic...
...House's 437 members on a petition protesting the President's plan to borrow $7.3 billion directly from the Treasury-a tactic designed to bypass the authority of the penny-pinching House Appropriations Committee. Even respected Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon argued that such "backdoor spending" was an economically sound procedure, used by every President since Herbert Hoover to support some 20 federal agencies. Aid Opponent Passman felt so sure that he did not have enough votes to block the bill in his Appropriations Subcommittee that he called off hearings. Kennedy himself felt confident enough to reject...
...lobby has lost many a battle. It fought Blue Cross hospital insurance (a "half-baked scheme" that would result in "mechanization of medical practice"), the American Red Cross Blood Bank, federal aid to medical schools ("a backdoor route" to socialized medicine), federal aid to states to reduce infant and maternal death rates, disability payments under social security. All are now in effect. But in the greatest of all contests, the 1949-51 battle over the Truman-Ewing national health insurance plan, A.M.A. scored a smashing win. Through the 19403, opinion polls had shown that a majority of the U.S. electorate...
...over the key to the Treasury's back door. Up for final congressional approval, after emerging from a House-Senate conference committee, was the Administration's $394 million bill to relieve economically depressed areas. But what was really at issue was the measure's method of "backdoor financing"-under which the Administration, once the bill was passed, would not have to return to Congress for actual appropriations or loan authority. To many a Representative, this seemed a dangerous dilution of Congress's constitutional power of the purse...
...fundamental alteration made during the last month will allow departments to offer non-credit tutorial as well as credits tutorial. Although Dean Monro admitted last night that this could allow the distinction between Honors and non-Honors in by the backdoor, he claimed that this was highly unlikely...