Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President Johnson asked Congress to pass his 10 percent income tax surcharge this summer, Congress demanded--and passed--a $6 billion cut in federal spending, and that cut is being severely felt at Harvard...
...90th Congress is concerned, time's a-wastin'. With elections only a month off, its members are desperate to get their campaigns under way. Last week, for example, the 38 members of California's House dele gation decided to adjourn, come what may, at the end of this week. One of them explained simply: "We've got to get home...
...that is getting done on Capitol Hill, the rest of Congress might as well do the same. When the Congress did act, all too often it was only to wield an indiscriminate axe. To win approval of his anti-inflationary 10% income tax surcharge, the President last spring agreed to a $180 billion budget ceiling. Last week the Senate refused to exempt Medicaid benefits for the poor from that ceiling, then went one step further and sliced $500 million from the $2.3 billion originally allocated to Medicaid...
Almost unnoticed, Congress quietly whacked $13.9 million from the Administration's requested funds for educational and cultural exchanges in August, in the process virtually gutting the famed Fulbright scholar program established in 1946. Fulbright money was reduced 72%, plummeting from $680,000 to $136,000 for Britain alone...
...gloom of one White House aide over the outgoing Congress was understandable. "You can't get blood out of a turnip," he said, "and the 90th Congress is a turnip." Not that the future is any more promising. "As things go," he added, "the 91st may be a stone...