Word: congressmen
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Reporters in every one of the 50 states talked to, all in all, hundreds of political figures: prospective candidates, possible kingmakers, Senators, Governors, Congressmen, state chairmen and all others right down to the precinct level. Predictably, few of the politicians wanted to put themselves on the record at this time. In most cases, when the conversation was placed on what is known in the trade as a "not-for-attribution" basis, they talked frankly and fully about what they know and think and expect. After thus tapping the flow of political thought, the dozens of correspondents working on the assignment...
...agreed to support Byrnes's proposal that the second stage of the two-year tax cut could not go into effect unless the net national debt was below $303 billion next July 1. Kennedy took to nationwide radio and TV to plug the tax bill, and Republican Congressmen Byrnes and Tom Curtis of Missouri got free and equal air-waves time to answer. The whole issue then and there became more political than economic...
...desperate effort to make his proposal more attractive to more Congressmen, Byrnes switched to a hastily drawn amendment that would have merely required the President to present a fiscal 1964 budget under $97 billion and a 1965 budget under $98 billion. But a budget is only a presidential estimate of federal costs, can always be revised, rarely is strictly adhered to by any Congress or any Administration...
...Appropriations Subcommittee last week cut the National Aero nautics and Space Administration appropriation to $5.1 billion, some $600 million less than the Administration had requested. The action closely followed President Kennedy's United Nations speech proposing a joint moon venture with the Russians, which prompted many dollar-conscious Congressmen to ask whether there was still any real need to conduct the Apollo moon shot as a cash-eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare...
Goat Glands for Houston. One of the chief beneficiaries of NASA largesse is California, and last week its Congressmen were scurrying around Washington in anguished alarm. "We were already in trouble," said one, "but this will make it harder for us to get funds." Houston, where NASA's $200 million Manned Spacecraft Center worked a goat-gland miracle on local real estate values, is equally threatened...