Word: congresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whooping Congress man. A migratory species of Washington rara avis best known for raucous cries and laying eggs in exotic places. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Scrutable Occidental...
...conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker's lap. On his return to Washington, he announced another economy: the second nuclear carrier (forced on the Navy by Congress) would be conventionally powered at a saving of $100 million...
With one bold thrust, Anderson undercut the tax-cut advocates in both the Administration and Congress: he worked out with Rayburn and Johnson an informal understanding that neither side would push for a tax cut without first discussing it with the other side. That understanding, dubbed the "Treaty of the Rio Grande," effectively fenced off the tax-cut issue from partisan politics. Despite widespread clamor, there was no tax cut. The U.S. soon began to pull out of the recession. Anderson believes this was one of the key economic-policy victories of U.S. history...
Fight Against Upcreep. As the economic indicators started climbing, Anderson's prestige climbed with them. That autumn he set off on another soft-spoken crusade: his fight to get the Administration firmly committed to balancing the fiscal 1960 budget that the President would send to Congress in January...
...extraordinary congress at Bad Godesberg last week, West Germany's Social Democratic Party, defeated in the past three elections by Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democrats-and by increasing margins, formally shed the Marxist principles upon which it was founded 96 years ago. The new platform favors "a free market wherever free competition really exists." Instead of a rigidly controlled economy, it now seeks "as much competition as possible, as much planning as necessary...