Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future presidential contest again threatens to capsize the election system. More important, smaller states are certain to reject an amendment that would severely diminish their importance. Since a constitutional amendment requires ratification by three-fourths of the states as well as approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress, the old electoral college mathematics probably will apply again...
...sure, Congress remains the property of the Democrats. In addition to their 51-vote House majority, they have a 58-to-42 edge in the Senate, after a loss of five seats. Nixon will thus become the first President since Zachary Taylor in 1849 to enter office with the opposition in complete control on Capitol Hill-even though the House, with its combination of Republicans and conservative Democrats, may not prove too unfriendly. Nevertheless, the G.O.P.'s gains in Congress, and more particularly at other levels, offered a dramatic demonstration of how far the party had traveled from...
Second-Class Berths. Whether intentionally or not, Gomulka's words set off an unprecedented debate among hard-lining Poles and many of the 250 foreign Communist guests at their Party Congress. The nonruling parties of Western Europe, Gomulka announced haughtily, should not expect to carry any weight with Eastern Europe's Communist rulers, "who carry the direct responsibility for the development of power in their countries as well as of the socialist system...
...scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue," and flatly predicts that the new Administration "won't get anywhere" in putting them before Congress...
RICHARD NIXON will probably have to move cautiously in working his will on the U.S. economy. Besides facing a Democratic-controlled Congress, the new Republican President will have to live until at least next summer with budget decisions already made by the Johnson Administration. Moreover, the narrowness of his election victory can hardly be interpreted as a mandate for sweeping economic change. Even his aides admit that Nixon will be forced into the role of an "economic neuter," as one of them puts it, during his first months in office...