Word: congressmen
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...Yale intern program sends some 40 students to Washington every year, mostly for work with Congressmen...
...limiting factor is the number of salaried summer jobs available to college students with government agencies or Congressmen," McCloskey explained. He stressed that he did not want to see the department committed to permanent sponsorship of such a program "when it might better spend its funds elsewhere...
...Capitol Hill, the Byrnes view was more representative than Republican. For Kennedy's tax program is in dreadful legislative trouble. Congressmen are wary of the huge deficit that the program envisions-and the mail from home makes them even warier. Says one Congressman: "I haven't had a single letter favoring a tax cut." Says another: "My mail has been running 20 to 1 against the President's program...
Dillon's testimony did not satisfy the Congressmen-least of all Arkansas' Mills. He has long cherished the goal of drastically revising the income tax laws, combining deep rate cuts with a closing or narrowing of the tax code's numerous routes of tax avoidance. He wants a tax code that is cleaner, simpler, more equitable than the present tangle, and plainly is no admirer of the Administration package. It would cut the rates, all right, but its proposed reforms are skimpy, uneven and not very fair...
Wary of opposition from budget-conscious Congressmen, Kennedy argued that the states and the nation are now indulging in the worst kind of false economy. There are 600,000 Americans in institutions for the mentally ill, and more than 200,000 in those for the mentally retarded. The average spent on their care is only $4 a day; in some states it is a niggardly $2. The direct cost to the taxpayers is $2.4 billion a year, but, said President Kennedy, the indirect costs to the taxpayer are far greater...