Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME carries on its cover the face of the present Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn of Texas. Also on the cover is the arresting face of another Cannon, Missouri's Clarence (no kin). With them are the three other individualistic legislative leaders who share, in the 86th Congress, the position of power once held, in effect, by Uncle Joe Cannon alone. For the story of the House and its evolution from Joe Cannon to a subtle, interlocking series of relationships, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "I Love This House...
...propaganda." the President told newsmen. "Now. I am not running for anything. I am just trying to do my best for America." And in trying to do his best, a lame-duck President -lately berated by Democratic critics for losing his grip and wanting to shrug off responsibilities on Congress (see The Congress) -had managed to frame the first big political issue of 1959 in his own terms...
...innocence in its eye, the fires of youth in its breast, the 86th Congress this week was still in the beginning of its beginning. It was the most heavily Democratic Congress since the glad, gone days of the New Deal. New plans, new programs, most of all what columnists have long called "new approaches," hung high like pie in the sky. Any bright young Senator could make headlines by calling a press conference to tell how the U.S. could become the Man in the Moon. Even hard-bitten Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had become a space specialist, gone clean...
DEBT-CEILING RISE, above "temporary" limit of $288 billion, will be requested of Congress again this year, Treasury Secretary Anderson says. President expects debt will swell to $285 billion at year's end, and "there will be a substantial temporary increase during the year," which will necessitate rise in ceiling...
...position Mason also faces a tough job; he will have to try to push through the President's new housing program over heavy congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove the present ceiling on the amount of private-home mortgages that FHA can insure. Although it shows a handsome profit, FHA last year twice had to jam on the brakes to seek more insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind...