Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THROUGHOUT the summer, prospects have been bleak for civil rights supporters in Congress. Wary Congressmen, watching the swing to the right among the home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...
This hard-line approach to student demonstrations reflects the overwhelming sentiment of Republicans in Congress. Last May the House was shocked when it seemed possible that Columbia might show some leniency to students revolting against the distant and authoritarian administration. A Republican legislator, Louis C. Wyman of New Hampshire, moved to deny federal scholarships, loans, or other aid to any students who participated in a campus protest. Only a few Northern Democrats opposed...
Congressional anger at students was so strong that a Senate-House conference was afraid to remove the ban completely. The relatively liberal conferees softened it to allow universities to act as they wish, but the cutoff provision still stands as an expression of the strong feeling in Congress...
...shows clearly that Congress feels it has a voice in campus discipline and that it wants university officials to deal harshly with protestors. Colleges which seem to be "coddling" their demonstrating students will probably face serious reprisals, especially if a President Nixon is blessed with a Republican House. Reactionaries in the Senate have already demonstrated their capacity to strike back at uncooperative administrators: any college which refuses to allow military recruiters on campus will be denied NASA research grants, as a result of a Republican-sponsored amendment to an appropriation bill this summer...
...fear that a Nixon appointment may mark a turn away from the relative enlightenment of the Warren Court is certainly warranted. A Thurmond Court, say, could bring the Supreme Court firmly in line with a conservative administration and Congress. But the assumption that a Fortas Court, with Thornberry the moderate, would continue and build upon the work of the Warren Court is knee-jerk liberalism in the grand old style...