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...what seemed to be a move to bolster Finch's stock in the Administration and on Capitol Hill, Nixon last week declared his "complete and unqualified support" of a set of HEW proposals to combat the rising costs of health care. Warning that the nation faced a "massive crisis," he placed his presidential imprimatur on a report prepared by Finch and Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, who was named Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs after the Knowles appointment collapsed...
...just that point that the issue turned last week. Capitol Hill was fogged in speculation about which ABM opponents might waver if the Administration started twisting arms. Mclntyre himself would be badly hurt if the Defense Department decided to close down the Portsmouth Naval Base, an important employer in his constituency. But the key man, one of the few Senators un committed as debate began, was Vermont's venerable George Aiken, 76, dean of Senate Republicans and a man singularly invulnerable to pressure. (The total cost of Aiken's 1968 primary campaign was $17.09 for postage...
Javits' threat may be an empty one. Capitol Hill can do little about what is essentially an administrative decision. But Congress is likely to do something about the Administration's voting rights bill. The bill was introduced without prior consultation with congressional leaders, who had already indicated their intention to extend the Southern-focused Voting Rights Act of 1965 for another five years. It would strengthen the present law by barring voter-literacy tests nationwide, although in most states this is not an issue. At the same time, it would undermine the enforceability of the existing...
...efficiency expert and auditor at the Pentagon, Fitzgerald has been giving interested Congressmen detailed, inside descriptions of how multibillion-dollar contracts grow between the assignment and delivery dates. Though he has found eager listeners among critics of the military on Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has chosen to treat him as a mildly treasonous pest...
Violated Integrity. Fitzgerald has told a Capitol Hill committee, among other things, that the Air Force paid a $2 bil lion cost "overrun" on the C-5A trans port plane. He estimated that overruns on the development of the Minuteman II missiles were "better than $4 billion." He confirmed earlier rumors that the Pentagon paid $2.5 billion more than originally anticipated for the avionics...