Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some things they wanted to know, Congressmen still felt, were not "relatively trivial." Congress' interest was based on a legitimate preoccupation with how more than $1 billion a year was going to be spent by an agency that was in some respects a law unto itself. Congressmen were baffled by a science too abstruse for them to comprehend. They were baffled by the need for national security on the one hand, the obvious necessity for un-hobbled scientific inquiry on the other. Beyond everything else, they were baffled by the problem of fitting absolute Government control of atomic power...
...nightmarish prospect bestrode the dreams of all grain men, of the harassed Commodity Credit Corp., and of Congressmen who were frightened of the political repercussions of a wheat glut. The CCC, which now owns most of the old crops still on hand, had been doing its best to move it out of storage and to the Gulf ports in the hope of increasing export. But there was a limit on how fast it could be moved. This week, the Association of American Railroads, unwilling to let its cars get tied up with orphan wheat, embargoed all shipments which...
Contrary to the President's hopes, lobbying in the Eighty-First Congress has been vigorous. Strong pressure groups have opposed extention of rent control, fought pending action on labor legislation, and skirmished heatedly in the recent issue of national health insurance. Congressmen react varyingly to these outside influences. Nevertheless there appears to be considerable feeling in Washington that the present lobby law, placed on the books three years ago, has reached the change of life and is now becoming impotent. This law requires registration of lobbyists and imposes heavy fines on those who fail to comply. Difficulty has arisen, however...
...Harry Truman was willing enough to purge some Congressmen if he could. He had failed in his all-out attempt to repeal the Taft-Hartley act because too many Democrats had voted against it. His legislative leaders were dejectedly advising compromise. Labor leaders came in to commiserate and to counsel...
This is probably the main conservation problem. As long as nobody bothers them, Congressmen will go right on supporting the sheep-owners' demands to chew the life from the grazing lands. As long as nobody bothers them Congress will go merrily on, allowing the nation's resources to float down the drain...