Word: congress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress could make sure of that pleasing change of affairs, said Acheson, by ratifying the North Atlantic pact, and by passing the $1,130,000,000 arms program to back it up, before adjourning. But Dean Acheson also knew that there was another explanation of Russia's seeming docility in Europe. The Russian bear had his mind on other game...
...about the increasing rate at which our Federal Government is spending our money. We have heard that almost all who come before you do so with hat in hand and tin cup held out . . . We come to strengthen the hand of those of you in both houses of the Congress who are concerned with the mounting cost of Government...
...Senators shifted uneasily. Like the Westchester delegates, the Senate had a petition of its own, signed by 57 Senators of both parties. It urged passage of a resolution to direct the President to cut 5 to 10% off appropriations finally voted by Congress. But such a let-Harry-do-it approach was just what ex-Mayor McLaughlin was talking about. Despite all the loud congressional forensics, Congress seemed unwilling or unable to practice what it preached. It had no help from the President, who had called for a record budget (see box), though traditionally it is his responsibility to preserve...
Kansas' aged (77) Republican Clyde Reed, who rounded up the Republican signatures on the bi-partisan petition. But, admitted Arkansas' John McClellan, who gathered the Democratic signatures "Congress is made up of human beings...
...record so far, Congress seemed sadly lacking in both courage and decision. Heading into the last week of the fiscal year, Washington was facing its worst appropriations logjam in years. Of the eleven major money bills which will keep the Federal Government running after June 30, only one had yet passed Harry Truman's desk. It was Congress' own outsize budget for the next fiscal year...