Word: congress
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...Provided that the President cannot overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for higher tariffs unless majority votes in both houses of Congress back...
...issuance of U.S. passports to [Communist] supporters facilitates their travel," said Dulles. "It clothes them when abroad with all the dignity and protection that our Government affords. Surely our Government should be in a position to deny passports to such persons?" Outlook for a passport bill in Congress: good...
...Senate, jogged by the Goldfine hearings, dusted off and passed without debate an innocuous year-old House resolution setting forth a ten-point code of ethics for federal officials. A "sense of Congress" resolution with no legal force, the code urges officials to be loyal, hardworking, fair, clean as a hound's tooth...
...control of unions? Do you have any scruples against killing? Do you have any respect for your government? Such a performance made a "mockery" of the Fifth Amendment, snapped Chairman John McClellan, and he threatened the often-arrested but never-convicted Accardo with a charge of contempt of Congress...
Badly needed is a joint effort by the Administration and Congress to decide just what national purposes federal housing programs are supposed to serve, and just how the programs should fit the purposes. But beyond this governmental responsibility lies a responsibility of the housing industry. The industry is composed of some of the U.S.'s ruggedest free enterprisers, who work toward a single purpose only when they want Government help. Next needed step: to promote improved housing in the U.S. in other ways besides handing out loans and grants, e.g., through research on housing materials, designs, construction methods...