Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress continues to battle over extension of the $8 billion income-tax surcharge, the Government's prime anti-inflation program. The extension bill has been blocked in the Senate by Democrats who are determined to hold it as a hostage until the Administration agrees to significant tax-reform measures. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and the members of the Democratic Policy Committee suffered a setback earlier when the Senate Finance Committee reported out the House extension bill intact. But last week they received welcome reinforcements. The help took the form of action by the potent House Ways and Means...
...whatever it can-or must-to slow down the nation's economy. President Nixon demonstrated this commitment last week when he ordered federal spending trimmed by $3.5 billion, primarily in non-Vietnamese military programs, in order to keep the budget under the $192.9 ceiling set by Congress. Viewing the surtax as his key weapon against the inflation that in June boosted the consumer price index by six-tenths of 1%, he has made it clear that he is willing to pay a price for its extension. Nixon last year indicated opposition to changing the oil-depletion allowance...
...Cairo, as Egyptians last week celebrated the 17th anniversary of the overthrow of King Farouk and the establishment of the republic, Nasser told the congress of the ruling Arab Socialist Union: "We now begin the stage of liberation. We shall fight for the restoration of our land, not only Egyptian lands but all Arab lands." Calling for a war of attrition, he warned that "we are now engaged in a long battle to drain the enemy's strength." In an attempt to create more Arab cooperation against Israel, he called for a new Arab summit conference, noting that "conditions...
...years, Congress has heard and uttered pieties about the environment...
...Require Congress and every federal agency to interpret all federal laws, policies and regulations in terms of a new national goal - safeguarding and enhancing the physical environment...