Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of budget reductions, totaling more than $3 billion, will likely be agreed upon by the time all the appropriations bills are passed. This would amount to a partial victory for House leaders, such as Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, who have been insisting that there is no hope of a tax increase without rigorous cutbacks by the Administration. Even so, there is still too much opposition to permit passage of a tax bill during the balance of 1967. However, Mills now believes that the economy is accelerating the way the Administration predicted it would. Therefore some tax increase...
...annual scramble for appropriations on Capitol Hill, nothing has pleased Congress more than the Peace Corps' stubborn refusal to spend every last cent of its budget. Honoring the idealism of 11,902 volunteer workers in 52 countries, it has shunned frills and pared costs, saving taxpayers roughly $45 million over four years. Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, 47, a feisty, compact (5 ft. 8 in.) redhead, was commended by Vice President Humphrey for slashing $495 off the upkeep of each corpsman last year...
...this year Vaughn asked for more money. Amid a rush of requests for Peace Corps volunteers from all over the non-Communist world, he submitted a 1968 budget of $118.7 million, up from last year's $110 million, to put 17,750 workers and trainees into 58 countries by next September. "It costs less money to make peace than war," Vaughn reminded the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "But it still costs a lot." Last week the message got through. While the House panel followed the Senate in trimming 3% from his requested budget, in a period of all-round...
Hommes expects to extend the program further by placing several seminarians in political campaign headquarters next year. Each of the Divinity students in the campaigns will receive $600 to $750 scholarships, which will come from the Divinity School budget...
...been made to improve the ghetto schools and, confronted by a recent state law specifically indicating financial penalties for segregated systems, she has been able to stall the wheels with sufficient success to prevent any meaningful improvement and not lose a penny of state aid for Boston's budget...