Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political issue of the year had been set by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in his dedication to a balanced budget. Since the heavily Democratic 86th Congress convened in January, few of its members had been more restless within the restraints of the balanced-budget idea than House Speaker Sam Rayburn. He was plainly and openly chafing-and when Mister Sam chafes, he chafes hard. His best opportunity so far to tilt the Eisenhower budget came last week, when the House considered housing legislation. The result was one of the roughest and tumblingest congressional fights in a long while...
...have been so bedeviled by political critics in the U.S. Congress as Democrat Dean Acheson during his four years as Secretary of State; Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, for one, felt genuine pity one night when Acheson dropped by his apartment and, over a mournful drink, told of his troubles with Congress. Yet as a private citizen-practicing law in Washington and sitting as a member of the Democratic Advisory Council-no one has worked harder than Dean Acheson at urging the Democratic Congress to give the Republican Administration political fits. Last week, invited to Capitol Hill...
...Excursion. Fulbright kept boring in, drew an admission that Reid had not graduated with his class because his senior thesis had been unsatisfactory. Purred Fulbright: "What was the thesis about?" Said Reid in a small voice: "The thesis was about lobbying, sir, lobbying in Congress." A little later Fulbright began reading excerpts from an Esquire article about Brownie Reid's Yale career. Among them, quoting a Yale roommate's recollection: "Brownie didn't spend more than a dozen nights on campus, and to keep in physical condition he relied on bar bells and flying his Widgeon...
...Also in Congress last week: ¶ The Senate and House passed separate wheat bills, both opposed by the Eisenhower Administration. The Senate pegged price supports at 65% of parity for farmers who plant full allotments, 75% for a 10% acreage cut, 85% for a 20% cut. It also set $35,000 as the maximum individual payment in any calendar year. The House offered a choice of planting full acreage at 50% of parity, or 75% of acreage at 90%, made $50,000 the maximum payment. Agriculture Department experts estimated that the Senate bill would cost an additional $150 million...
...Announced that he was setting up a federal interagency committee to study problems of the import-harassed U.S. textile industry, expects a report before the beginning of Congress' 1960 session...