Word: congressmen
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...right down to the latest styles in helicopters, the U.S. had rarely if ever been given so competent and confident an exposition of its defense policies. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, appearing last week before the House Armed Services Committee, read almost all of a 198-page statement and answered Congressmen's questions in a style that often made them feel, quite helplessly, as though they were interrogating a computer. Congressmen certainly knew that they were in the presence of a man who had done his homework. Whether or not his answers prove to be the right ones, they were...
Congress inevitably will try to untie the big package and pass the selective-help items it likes. An example is more school aid for "federally impacted" areas, such as those around army camps and defense factories. Southern Congressmen love it; this year it will cost about $350 million, and extension should pass without trouble. Due for expansion is the 1958 National Defense Education Act, which spurred the teaching of math, science and foreign languages and set higher academic standards in these subjects. Congress likes aid to education when expressed this way, and may well approve...
President Kennedy's budget proposals will be used as a weapon against government welfare activities, Sen. Maurine B. Neuberger (D-Ore.) warned last night. She said that conservative Congressmen would seek to justify welfare cutbacks on the basis of the President's desire to keep a close check on federal spending...
...Chilling Effect." As if the stated figures were not bad enough, most Congressmen recognized that Presidents are traditionally and notoriously overoptimistic in estimating the size of budget deficits. Missouri's Cannon complained on the floor of the House that over the past nine years the Administration budgetmakers have underestimated the red ink by a net total of $37.5 billion. "They were feasting on the delights of sweet anticipation," growled Cannon. "But now we are gnawing on the cold corncob of stern reality." For example, only a year ago Kennedy submitted a 1963 budget indicating a surplus of $500 million...
...inflation, already severe, grew worse. Prime Minister followed Prime Minister and new U.S. investment, frightened by the instability, dropped from $266 million in 1961 to $62 million last year. Not until last September, when they were thoroughly frightened by threats of a pro-Goulart military coup, did the Congressmen reluctantly agree to the plebiscite that Goulart wanted...