Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson launched his War On Poverty in 1964, he gave the Office of Economic Opportunity command of ten campaigns* to rescue the nation from want. Almost from the start, however, the antipoverty warriors have been fighting a losing battle on Capitol Hill. By now, a large segment of the Congress seems determined to divest the OEO of its generalship...
...prospect is that despite such amputations, Congress will eventually reduce the President's original $186.1 billion budget request by only about $3 billion. Then the Administration will presumably attempt to lop off more. But the war, along with interest on the national debt and other exigencies of the nation's housekeeping, will make further substantial reductions almost prohibitively difficult...
Both houses of Congress last week virtually shot down any hope of meaningful federal control of guns. The major defeat occurred in the House, where it came in the form - but not the substance - of victory for tighter laws. Voting 305 to 118, the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would limit interstate mail-order sales of long guns and certain types of ammunition.* However, charged the bill's disappointed floor manager, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, the measure left loopholes "aswide as the Grand Canyon." Among the 19 amendments adopted was one permitting gun collectors...
...good indication of the growing strength of the movement to block the confirmation of Fortas and Homer Thornberry, Lyndon Johnson's nominee for Associate Justice. Though the hear ings ended after nine days, more than a score of Senators made it plain that they plan a filibuster when Congress returns after the conventions. Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, leader of the anti-Fortas bloc, claimed that he already had more than enough votes to keep a filibuster going indefinitely...
...manuscript by Sakharov was published in the U.S. by the New York Times. In it, the physicist boldly denounces major aspects of Soviet policy and practice, goes so far as to urge an East-West "convergence" to provide a safe and single world leadership. It is, as Library of Congress Kremlinologist Leon Herman said, "a thunderbolt"-not only for what it says but because of its origin in the very bosom of the Soviet elite...