Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conservative Coloration. As of this week, the outlook is for a Republican pickup of 22 seats. That would give the 91st Congress a Democratic edge of 226 Democrats to 209 Republicans. It would also give the House a more conservative tilt, making it more hostile to foreign aid than even the pinch-penny 90th, more sympathetic to defense appropriations, less anxious to enact fresh domestic programs, more eager to transfer federal projects to state and local control...
...addition, voters in many states have worthwhile candidates for Congress to vote for, like the 11 Senate candidates who are forming as a left wing coalition around McCarthy. No one is going to prevent the next Congress from being conservative, but the election of men like these will help. They could, in the future, form the nucleus for an effective left wing movement in this country, as Wallace has become the nucleus of the Right. Like the refusal to vote for Humphrey, Nixon or Wallace, their election would be a step toward honestly appraising how bad things...
Passed by Congress to help regulate marijuana traffic, the act has been in jeopardy since a federal judge in Ohio last March ruled it carries "substantial hazards of self-incrimination" and dismissed an indictment brought against a musician...
...difficulty is that FCC was established and is funded by Congress, and nobody knows how willing that body will be to provide large amounts of money to the college. This year, FCC's operating budget is $4.3 million, but next year the budget request will be significantly higher, as FCC seeks money for construction on its permanent site...
WITH their college education, FCC students will be better able to work in the Washington community, and this kind of activity is being encouraged at FCC. An act of Congress made the college a land-grant institution, the first such college in the country to be urban-oriented. College officials and students met with community leaders all summer to try to arrange cooperative programs--things like adult classes, and workshops and institutes and such...