Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with less support than they had before. Last week the Republican leaders of the House called for a party conference to work up opposition to the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (the Eisenhower Administration was strongly on record against anything more than a 7.6% increase). The session backfired: Republican Congressmen, angry at their leaders and aware of the powerful postal workers' lobby, joined with Democrats to vote 328 to 66 in favor of the 8.8% hike. Later, the Senate passed the bill...
...WAAC was Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, one of whose staff officers recalled: "General Marshall shook his finger at me and said, T want a women's corps right away and I don't want any excuses!' " The bill creating the WAAC was passed by Congressmen May 14, 1942, over anguished opposition (cried a Representative: "Think of the humiliation! What has become of the manhood of America?"). Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, a Houston publisher, was sworn in as WAAC director. Notes the book: "Her wide-brimmed hat proved unreasonably difficult to photograph...
...blame for the national program's weakness plainly must be laid at the Department of Health's door. Senator Morse has reintroduced a bill he first suggested a month ago to set up a federal commission which would allocate and set priorities for vaccine use. More recently, many congressmen of both parties have joined Senator Ives in sponsoring a similar measure. Immediately after the voluntary distribution was announced, over 50 national welfare agencies and labor groups objected, requesting federal appropriations for free distribution of vaccine to low-income children, and federal control over records of inoculations. President Eisenhower himself...
...resources almost impossible. Not only are finances and expenditures not matched coherently, but few of the members of the involved committees are aware of any sort of legislative budgetary policy. Slashes are made in budgets with little regard to the importance of items in any positive economic program, since Congressmen only attempt to avoid rocking the economic boat with overly-heavy taxes. Representative G. P. Lipscomb has suggested a remedy with his proposed Joint-Committee on the Budget, which would join representatives of both Senate and House appropriations and finance committees in a body devoted to the consideration of fiscal...
...proposed Consolidated Appropriations bill would help Congress maintain its ceiling on expenditures, by reducing the number of supplementary bills now necessary to make up deficiencies. With one bill covering the whole budget, Congressmen would be more fully aware of the extent of their expenditures. Responsibility for the public debt would be more sharply focussed on one all-important vote. Realizing this, Congressmen would hold pressure groups in much less regard. An omnibus appropriations bill, however, would hamstring the President completely, unless he were allowed an item veto...