Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mustering the necessary zeal-not to mention the political and budgetary support-may be more difficult than mastering the technology. NASA has no plans yet for any manned expeditions beyond the moon, largely because of its inability to wrest more funds from a Congress whose members are already divided over the $24 billion tab for Apollo. Last week, as head of a task force on future U.S. space objectives, Vice President Spiro Agnew said the nation should aim for a manned Martian landing by the end of the century. But Agnew conceded that the other members of the panel might...
...theory, the surtax is a fiscal mechanism, a key weapon in the fight against inflation. In practice-as two Presidents have discovered to their chagrin-Congress has found it a handy lever for forcing its fiscal views on the Chief Executive. Last year a House coalition compelled Lyndon Johnson to accept stringent budget cuts before they would pass the tax. This year liberals in the Senate are demanding as their price for extending the surcharge a major overhaul of the entire tax structure...
...something to be done tomorrow. Though the Administration did, in fact, attach a few reforms of its own to the surtax bill as a sweetener, it did not go nearly far enough to satisfy the liberals. While Nixon pledged himself to submit a more comprehensive tax-reform package to Congress this year, he has been less than specific about its contents-perhaps partly because tax revision is so enormously complicated...
Mansfield's hope is that the House Ways and Means Committee, which is working on its own plan to revise the tax structure, will get its version of reform passed by the House and the Senate before Congress goes on vacation Aug. 13. Administration economists contend that if the bill is delayed until fall, the battle against inflation may be lost altogether. While the tax will continue to be withheld from paychecks until a decision is made, the wait for final approval, say Treasury experts, undercuts their efforts to slow inflation and brake the economy. On the other hand...
...poor may not be getting poorer, but they are constantly growing more numerous. Poor families in the U.S. have an average of 4.5 children compared with three for those above the poverty line. Last week President Nixon sent a message to Congress calling for a major increase in federal family planning services in the next five years. The goal: to make birth control information and devices available to all American women of childbearing...