Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truman Analogy. In the confines of the White House, he works as energetically as ever for his policies. He pours out his arguments to a procession of newsmen and Congressmen, plans long-run sessions with leaders of business, labor and farm groups. He has been meeting incessantly with aides, assuring one of them recently. "This Administration hasn't lost...
Nevertheless, many Congressmen doubted that the economy had built up sufficient impetus to resist the recessional impact of higher taxes. A more prudent course, they reasoned, would be to reduce domestic spending-though few Congressmen could agree on the programs to be cut. Some citizens felt that the President's experts were practicing arithmetical abracadabra to justify the surcharge. "Now you see it, now you don't," siehed Wisconsin's John Byrnes after Schultze projected a $2 billion saving on the sale of "participation certificates," which, committee members thought, amounted to an elaborate form of federal borrowing...
...welfare changes were tacked onto a bill providing a general 121% increase in Social Security benefits; they reflect the gut feeling of many Congressmen that large numbers of welfare recipients are either too lazy or too unmotivated to work. Their remedy: a big stick and a small carrot...
...specter of inflation has long worried the Johnson Administration and, in fact, is the main reason it gives for requesting a 10% tax surcharge on individuals and corporations. Last week, at the House Ways and Means Committee hearings on the proposal (see THE NATION), many Congressmen seemed determined to resist higher taxes until the Administration makes an effort to cut spending...
...national economy, Vietnam and its budgetary demands, and the Congressional attempts to cut his domestic programs. He will not be able to press Congress on reform. For its own part, Congress has a special aversion towards any reform of the tax system; often the financial interests closest to Congressmen happen to be the very beneficiaries of economic distortions and abuses...