Word: congress
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...takes dedication and determination to strive for a balanced budget in late autumn 1958. In a nation that only lately climbed out of a steep recession, and that has elected a Congress likely to be less cost-conscious than its predecessor, the goal seems almost unattainable. Even if the Administration is right in its prediction that the economy's upward surge will push federal income in fiscal 1960 to an alltime record of $75 billion, a deficit of more than $4 billion still looms if spending stays at this year's level of $79.2 billion. And the pressures...
...opening of the Democratic 86th Congress was almost two months away, but the trenches were already dug and the caissons were moving up for what could be a historic battle: in the first hours of the 86th, a now-or-never effort will be made to change the U.S. Senate's Rule XXII, which, in its present form, makes it all but impossible to cut off filibusters...
Unlimited Debate? Defenders of Rule XXII will object on the ground that the Senate is a continuing body (because two-thirds of its membership holds over from Congress to Congress) with continuing rules. Vice President Nixon will advise, as he has before, that the would-be rules-changers are right. If Nixon is upheld by a simple Senate majority, the way will be open to adopting, again by simple majority, a new set of rules with Rule XXII the only one actually changed...
...Salon de Honor of Chile's National Congress Building, a room Chileans prize as a symbol of the system of representative democracy, a fanatic crowd of card-carrying Communists last week packed every inch of floor and gallery space. Wildly they cheered a group of leaders who promised to "make pacts even with the devil" to achieve their goal: the end of Chile's democracy. Legalized since last August, the Communist Party had come up from underground to meet in the open for its Eleventh National Congress. Cried El Diario llustrado: "It is a shame that the Reds...
Aware of their rise, the Eleventh Congress resounded with confidence. Delegates re-elected a secretary general, Schoolteacher Luis Corvalan, 48, and President Elias Lafferte, 72. Brought back into the party's politburo was world-famed Poet Pablo Neruda...