Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When it came to pork, many a budget-cutter squealed in anguish. A delegation of Georgia businessmen arrived in Washington to demand that their Congressmen vote wholesale economies, only to be asked if they thought appropriations for Georgia projects should be knocked out. "Oh no," cried one. "We want you to cut the hell out of everybody but us." In San Francisco the Chamber of Commerce issued a resounding call for budget slashes. What about the proposed $45 million federal courthouse in San Francisco? Snapped a Chamber of Commerce official: "We don't consider this pork-barreling...
...tortured House Appropriations .Subcommittee Summerfield sat down and made his peremptory demand: a deficiency appropriation of $47 million to carry on until June 30, the end of the fiscal year. Bluntly he threatened to "drastically curtail" post office services unless the committee gave him what he wanted; he invited Congressmen to say "whatever services you would have the American people be denied...
...cries of support for Summerfield began to come in from postmen who were worried about their pay-and voters who were worried about their mail-Congressmen began to recall that the mail is one Government service that reaches almost every constituent almost every day. The day after Summerfield's press conference, the Appropriations Committee turned tail, voted to reconsider his request. In a second press conference, the Postmaster General announced that his proposed cutbacks would not take effect until this weekend -the day after the committee is scheduled to make up its mind about that other $30 million...
...Congressman offered a bill to cut the Ten Commandments to eight it would pass. Last week the House slashed away at the Labor and Health, Education and Welfare appropriations bill, and its mood had a scalpel's edge. In seven days of surgery on Labor and HEW, the Congressmen trimmed $69 million off the Appropriations Committee's $2.9 billion bill. Then, before the patient had regained consciousness, the surgeons stitched back nearly 80% of what they...
...most direct help would be an overall tax cut. Both Democratic and Republican Congressmen have introduced measures to aid smaller firms either by raising the profit point at which the 52% corporate tax rate becomes effective, or lowering the tax rate for profits under $25,000. A Cabinet committee appointed by the President recommended a cut from 30% to 20% for corporations with earnings of less than $25,000. But the Administration, harking to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's firm opposi tion to tax changes involving more than a "minimum" revenue loss, has so far regarded direct tax cuts...