Word: congression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President also prodded Congress again about its slow legislative pace, claiming that he might not even be able to propose a federal budget on time if appropriations bills continued to lag. Two days later, the Senate made it clear that it would not act this year on his proposal for a lottery procedure for the draft. The bill passed the House, but Democratic leaders in the Senate want to reform the whole Selective Service Act and contend that this requires more time. The issue apparently will reemerge next year, but Nixon need not wait. He can institute certain reforms, short...
...reason that Shultz's influence has risen so rapidly is that he has performed well on a series of sensitive assignments. He pushed through Congress a compromise cutback in the Job Corps, placating supporters of the program by eliminating only the camps that had a poor record of placing graduates in jobs. In addition, he effectively broke a five-month impasse within the Administration over whether or not welfare payments should be extended to the working poor, a proposal that Arthur Burns, for one, argued would be too costly and would induce many people to stop working...
...these words, President Nixon last week introduced a message to Congress outlining his "buyer's bill of rights." The authors of The Jungle and Silent Spring, in fact, had less to do with the message than a man who was not mentioned: Ralph Nader. Nixon's address testified to the growing power of consumerism, and of Nader, the lone crusader who has become the leader of the consumer movement...
Provided that Congress approves and allocates enough money. Nixon's proposals will make some major advances toward what he called "a just marketplace." The main items, many of which Nader has been campaigning for: > Consumers for the first time will be permitted to join together in "class actions" in federal court and share the legal expenses of suing manufacturers and merchants guilty of deception. Convicted manufacturers will have to bear all legal costs and pay damages to all who sue. Nixon's proposal, however, does not go as far as Nader and others have demanded. Class-action suits...
...surface, Michael and Margaret Pritchard are a rather ordinary childless couple. He is a shy, fairly dull curator of manuscripts at the Library of Congress, apparently content with an orderly retreat from life among the works of long dead poets. She is a good-looking, sensitive, sometimes witty middle-aged woman with a crippled hand from a childhood bout with polio. She feels his passion has waned, and wants more excitement in her life. He feels caged by the demands of her love. That worm in the bud eats at their inner emotional lives. Their affectionate love slowly evolves from...