Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson campaigned quietly among the big names of Capitol Hill (including New Mexico's Democrat Clint Anderson-no kin), faced the Democrat-dominated Joint Congressional Economic Committee, stoutly resisted charges that "living within our means" is a negative policy. Said Anderson: "The fact of the matter is that there is almost nothing which is more positive than fiscal soundness." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.. also appearing before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, bluntly warned that there was "never a more important time than now" for balancing the budget. Behind Martin...
...labor troubles. (Snapped an Administration legal eagle: "How can you conciliate, cut down, modify or negotiate constitutional rights in voting, schools, or Jim Crow?") Fellow Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy offered another version of last session's Kennedy-Ives labor bill before the Administration could get its own to Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, House Democratic leaders, with no fanfare but equal determination, settled down in typical conservative fashion to shape the course of government...
...1960s, and is foolishly placing a balanced budget above adequate military defenses. Last week, at long last, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, backed by "the best intelligence there is," rose to the challenge. With General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, McElroy went over to the Capitol to set the facts before the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Georgia's Richard Russell. McElroy's theme: There is no missile gap. Points...
Last week the buckram-bound volume that contains the U.S. budget went from the White House to Capitol Hill. Wrapped up in that budget were all the plans and programs of the U.S. for the next fiscal year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith, Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills would all help bring those programs to life. The dew of innocence was still in the eye of the 86th Congress, the fires of hope in its breast. New "approaches" hung high like...
Chairman of a 50-member committee, largest in congressional history, Clarence Cannon works almost around the clock at the job -as he sees it -of saving the U.S. from bankruptcy. He darts back and forth among his 14 subcommittees, bent forward, as one Capitol staffer puts it. at a 45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat...