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...spite of the pro-federal-aid efforts of the Illinois Education Association, Illinois officialdom does not want federal aid. In Virginia, not a single county or city has exhausted its bonding capacity, and from Governor Thomas Stanley and Senator Harry Byrd on down, most political leaders vigorously oppose help from the Government. In Maryland, the most serious classroom shortage is in Baltimore county, but even there educators are looking not to the U.S. but to the state for the funds they need...
...Irresponsible." For its budget cutting, the Chamber found plenty of support in Washington. Trumpeted Virginia's Democratic Senator Byrd: "This is the most irresponsible budget submitted in my day." He urged that the budget be chopped back to 1955's level of $64 billion; then both corporate and income taxes could be reduced by about $6.3 billion. Added California's Senate Minority Leader Knowland: if the Administration is spendthrift, Congress is not. The lawmakers, predicted Knowland, will trim the budget by more than $3 billion...
...utterly indefensible act," cried Virginia's conservative Democrat Harry F. Byrd, whose Finance Committee quickly began hearings on his bill to limit all federal fast-amortization plans to defense, AEC and research projects. "A shocking political theft," added Oregon's liberal Democrat Wayne Morse, whose bill calling for a public power dam at Hells Canyon was defeated in Congress last July 51 to 41. It was promptly reported out of the Senate Interior Committee by Montana's Democratic Chairman James E. Murray as "our answer to the Administration's action...
...Byrd, the economy-minded chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, denounced the "squandering" of public money in a speech before the 45th annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He was warmly applauded...
Afterward Byrd told newsmen he was not calling for the resignation of Budget Director Percival F. Brundage--"that's up to the President." But he added: "I think Mr. Brundage has made a failure of his present budget...