Word: capitol
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Lyndon Johnson had trouble enough with the 90th Congress, even though his own party controlled both houses. Richard Nixon, facing a Capitol Hill controlled by the opposition, will have to be a consummate politician if he is to get anything but misery from the 91st. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference, concedes that the next President "will have to be the greatest salesman of the century" to get his programs across. While the real test of his powers of persuasion will not come for months, Nixon's moves so far have been calculated...
...Capitol Hill generate as much fear and frustration as Congressman John James Rooney. In the 17 years that he has chaired the powerful House Subcommittee on Appropriations for State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary and related agencies, the diminutive Democrat from Brooklyn has made a career of slashing budget requests, especially those of the State Department. It was Rooney who coined the famous expression "booze allowance" for diplomats' representational allowance-money allotted for official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates...
...Democrats. In addition to their 51-vote House majority, they have a 58-to-42 edge in the Senate, after a loss of five seats. Nixon will thus become the first President since Zachary Taylor in 1849 to enter office with the opposition in complete control on Capitol Hill-even though the House, with its combination of Republicans and conservative Democrats, may not prove too unfriendly. Nevertheless, the G.O.P.'s gains in Congress, and more particularly at other levels, offered a dramatic demonstration of how far the party had traveled from the wreckage...
...York squads of the late '50s, the Giants are on their way to their first winning season in five years. They left Dallas with a record of six victories and three loss es, trailing the Cowboys by only one game in the race for the N.F.L.'s Capitol Division title. And they have one more date with the Cowboys on Dec. 15. The way the schedule shapes up, it could be winner take...
Whatever fiscal measures he finally decides on, Nixon will then have the difficult job of selling them on Capitol Hill. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, warned early in the campaign that he would oppose elimination of the surtax "unless additional, very stringent economies are placed in effect." Mills takes an even dimmer view of the President-elect's pet scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue...