Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leadership of both House and Senate, which seemed at the time to work against Middle-Roader Eisenhower, had actually given him better organization to work with in both houses. As rarely before in more than six years of the Eisenhower Administration, the Republican President and the Republican members of Congress were behaving as if they belonged to the same party, were united behind the President's balanced budget and were meeting Democratic taunts fast and concertedly...
...Best Time." At the breakfast with the Representatives, the Republicans discussed strategy for dealing with what seems likely to be the first major piece of legislation to be passed by the Democratic 86th Congress: a $575 million airport construction bill, providing for federal spending on such items as terminals and waiting rooms, as compared to the austere $200 million Administration program...
With a tone that rarely creeps into Eisenhower messages to Congress, the President last week attacked that costly, archaic contraption, the federal farm-price-support program. Said Ike in his farm message to Congress: ¶ It "has not worked." Most of the money goes to larger producers who need no help. "It does little to help the farmers in greatest difficulty." ¶ It breeds ever bigger surpluses, because high support prices attract capital to supported crops, and soaring farm technology keeps defeating crop-control measures. ¶ It is "excessively expensive." Farm-stabilization costs are running to $5.4 billion this year...
Reliable sources at Smithsonian indicated that the project on Observatory Hill will be financed by the Program for Harvard College. The building will remain the property of the University, and will be rented completely or in part to Smithsonian, a private company held in trust by the United States Congress...
...Take Credit." ODCM's decision also raised complaints in Congress. Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss asked the White House why the Tennessee Valley Authority last November awarded a $2,637,000 contract for electric generators to Switzerland's Brown Boveri instead of to the low domestic bidder, suburban Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Louisiana Democrat T. Hale Boggs, chairman of the House reciprocal-trade-agreements subcommittee, promised a thorough investigation of the B.L.H. award. Asked Boggs: "Does this mean that we invoke the national-defense clause when an industry at home is having some...