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...Before passing the Administration bill by a resounding vote of 72 to 16, the Senate knocked out the Senate Finance Committee's most damaging piece of butcherwork: a provision that the President may not overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for higher tariffs unless majority votes in both houses of Congress back him up (TIME, July 21). Co-sponsors of the amendment to undo the Finance Committee damage: Majority Leader Johnson and California's Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, joining forces in an overwhelming coalition. "This was not a party matter," said Johnson. "This was Congress standing there together telling...
...Benson bill, strongly favored by the American Farm Bureau Federation, had in fact sneaked up on Congress in the wake of the President's veto of the no-good price-freeze farm bill last March. Its principal achievement was that it was a considerable victory over Benson's old enemy-parity. This price-propping concept, which has been built into farm legislation since 1933, is a formularized measure of the relationship between the prices of farm products and other goods. The Benson-backed alternative: a price support based on 90% of the average market price over the previous...
Finally, Mike has been immobilized by the menace of E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, elected Democratic delegate to Congress for seven terms and widely regarded in Alaska as politically invincible. Bartlett was openly after the Stepovich scalp, and even while announcing for the U.S. Senate, vowed to change his mind the moment Mike declared for Governor. Under pressure of cooler heads, Bartlett reconsidered, reaffirmed his senatorial candidacy "without conditions of any kind...
...special act of Congress, rushed through without objection or debate and promptly signed by the President, granted Chennault his deathbed promotion...
...another year at least. FCC will issue no permits for toll systems until next August, will give Congress plenty of time to act on several pending bills to outlaw paid video...