Word: congressmen
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...always been easy to kick Mississippi," noted an Administration aide. "But this is a new ball game." Just how new, Northern Congressmen discovered last week as the House began debate on the Johnson Administration's 1966 civil rights bill, the third such measure in as many years and the first to take aim at discrimination against Negroes in the North...
...stumbling block to many Northerners was the bill's Title 4, which was originally intended to outlaw racial discrimination in the sale and rental of all housing. To gain support from hesitant Congressmen, Administration strategists agreed to amendments in the Judiciary Committee that would exclude owner-occupied dwellings of four units or fewer-more than 60% of the nation's residential housing. Though still not enough of a concession for many of the bill's opponents, it was far too much for militant civil rights supporters...
...complaint that he and about 530 other home builders from around the U.S. brought before their Congressmen last week in a one-day lobbying visit was simple: their industry is in a perilous condition. Competition for deposits between commercial banks, which lend primarily to business, and savings institutions, which lend mortgage money, has grown so fierce that the supply of mortgage funds is dwindling and higher interest rates are scaring away home buyers...
Well, Minority Leader Gerald Ford allowed at a press conference, "some very disturbing rumors were floating around Washington about the dismissal of certain antitrust actions and contributions to the President's Club." G.O.P. Congressmen Charles Goodell of New York and Thomas Curtis of Missouri were also intrigued by the turn of events. Strange, said Goodell on the House floor, that the Busch contributions to the President's Club had been made "suddenly and simultaneously, as manna from above." Added Curtis: "A very serious matter...
Schools unable to maintain their own capital representatives can now turn instead to a growing number of Washington firms that call themselves "educational consultants." One such com pany was formed recently by Edgar B. Cale, former vice chancellor for the University of Pittsburgh. "We don't contemplate pressuring Congressmen at present," he says. "We'll take what's on the books and that's plenty." Still another educational consultant is Leo S. Tonkin Associates, which recently hired as associate director a young man with a promising future in Washington circles-Luci's fiance Pat Nugent...