Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were provisions 1) making the committee staff director responsible to the majority rather than Powell; 2) empowering the ranking majority member to report committee-approved bills to the full House, thus ending Powell's ability to pocket veto legislation at will; 3) requiring majority approval of the committee budget and a detailed review of all expense accounts...
...delaying action in congressional committees on eight major appropriations bills, Senators eager to return home for campaigning grew increasingly restive. Lyndon Johnson had, after all, predicted last year that the session would end before July. By week's end, however, the log jam began to ease as budget requests for the District of Columbia and for new military construction passed the House and another for public works emerged from a House committee...
Moreover, he does it on a nonsubsi-dized budget ($10 million for this sea son), which, he proudly points out, "I have never failed to meet within 1 %, and that always on the plus side." Another considerable profit flowing from Bing's careful planning comes in the form of singers' appreciation. They get their Met contracts set months and even seasons in advance; this enables them to schedule outside performances with confidence. No other opera house offers such service...
...Worker in Purple." Myers inherits a see that includes ten counties around San Francisco and has 103,000 church members. Under Pike's yeasty eight-year stewardship, the number of clergy has almost doubled, the diocesan budget is up from $349,000 to $894,000-and the deficit may reach $80,000 this year, partly because of decreased giving by grumbling parishioners. Pike has delighted some and scandalized others by allowing a policy of open communion in his diocese, and by permitting the use of Grace Cathedral for a modern art exhibit, a jazz mass, and the premiere...
...expressed purpose of dispelling uncertainty. One week after the murder, President Johnson appointed an august group of seven men, headed by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, to "satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered." The Warren Commission had an unlimited budget and access to all the investigative talents and tools of the Federal Government. With the help of a full-time staff of 26-mostly legal experts-it published a lucid, tightly written 888-page report that was a compendium of 26 volumes (17,815 pages) of testimony and evidential exhibits gathered over...