Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is to be any Democratic program in the following four years, it must come from Congress. As No. 2 man on the majority side and a member of the steering committee, Ted Kennedy will have a major role in formulating policy. Majority Leader Mansfield, a former college professor from Montana, has never been an aggressive legislative leader and, at 65, he has no aspiration for higher elective office. Thus Kennedy, his heir apparent, should have ample opportunity to show his mettle...
Moreover, as assistant majority leader, Kennedy will be able to speak out on any important issue before the Congress, free of the accusation that he is merely promoting his presidential prospects. It will be his responsibility to be a vigorous advocate. If, at the same time, he broadens his national reputation and following, that will be only in the line of duty. The fact that he will be more firmly anchored to the Senate floor than he would as an ordinary Senator scarcely hobbles his prospects for 1972. As a Kennedy, he does not have to travel for years...
...military budget of $4.9 billion (to $78.5 billion), which is less than the service chiefs and their partisans on Capitol Hill want. House Armed Services Chairman Mendel Rivers insists that defense spending will have to go up by still another few billion. On the first day of the new Congress, he introduced a $3.8 billion bill that in effect would begin construction of a new Navy. The amount is nearly triple the funds available for shipbuilding this year...
...veteran of 22 years in Congress, Powell was banished in 1967 on charges that he misused some $40,000 of public funds. Now he had returned from exile. Re-elected by his faithful Harlem constituency six weeks after his expulsion, and re-elected again in November, the wayward sheep was back from his retreat on the Caribbean isle of Bimini, ready and anxious to rejoin the fold. For five hours, the House debated the issue of reseating Powell, airing in the process nearly all his public and private transgressions. Then its members voted 251 to 160 to let Powell take...
Fine for Sins. When the House unseated Powell in 1967, it deposed him as chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, stripping him of all the perquisites that the post confers. In restoring him to Congress last week, the House deprived him of his seniority and meted out a $25,000 fine for his past sins as the price of forgiveness.* (He has already forfeited $55,000 in congressional pay.) The resolution gave him until Jan. 15 to decide whether to accept the terms...