Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past eleven years, a total of 199 U.S. mid-air collisions have taken 669 lives. With the number of private aircraft now at 104,000, compared with 83,000 five years ago, commercial airports are so congested that some Congressmen have proposed banning the private planes from commercial-liner airports altogether. The House Commerce Committee scheduled air-traffic hearings for this week as a result of the Hendersonville tragedy...
What is most amazing about the anti-riot legislation is the complete illusion of many Congressmen who believe that they can solve the the problem without givin git top priority. The poverty program is in dire straits; the House has refused to enact legislation designed to protect civil rights workers; it has cut back the model cities program by $425 million; and it has denied funds for rent supplements. President Johnson says Vietnam should have top priority. Congress agrees. But Newark and Detroit tell a different story...
...control of Southerners over both the Senate and House agriculture committees. Another is the fact that the $195 million bill extending the Food Stamp Act was saved from a crippling amendment in the House last month by just eleven votes. Freeman obviously hopes to accomplish more by wooing Southern Congressmen than by warring with them...
...reluctance to give Westmoreland more men stems from a growing feeling in Washington, particularly among members of Congress, that somehow the U.S. should be accomplishing more with the men it now has in Viet Nam. Even if Westmoreland were to be given the 600,000 troops he wants, some Congressmen and Administration officials have begun to doubt whether they would be sufficient to achieve U.S. aims in Viet Nam. Those aims are to provide security for the people of South Viet Nam as they try to build a nation, and to try to bring enough pressure and pain to bear...
...move the bureaucracy on an issue like this unless you can mobilize public opinion so strongly that the Comgressional establishment is in turn mobilized," he said. "You have to move the Agriculture committees which are dominated by Southern Congressmen...