Word: congressmen
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Since every loan dollar sold would be counted as a dollar saved under the federal accounting system, the measure would have the effect of reducing the Government's deficit by $4.7 billion in the coming fiscal year. Despite Ford's criticism, few Congressmen, even those unsympathetic to the Administration, would be likely to accept the alternatives, a tax boost or a sharp reduction in domestic spending, or even offer spirited opposition to a scheme that their constituents could hardly understand. The House Banking Committee found it reasonable enough, approved the bill by a vote...
...comparison with its heroically productive first session, the performance of the 89th Congress this year seems lackluster. Nonetheless, as Congressmen headed home last week for the Easter recess, they could reasonably claim that they had accomplished virtually all that they had set out to do. The session has set a "good normal record," as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield assesses it. "It hasn't been sensational, like last year, but it has been solid...
What most sets the current session apart is a heightened sense of politics. With elections coming up in November, Congressmen have grown understandably edgy not only about Viet Nam but also over inflation and the possibility of tax increases. Congressional Republicans, who wholeheartedly back the U.S. objectives in Viet Nam, have deliberately withheld criticism of the specifics of Administration policy-largely in hopes that they can thus zero in on Democratic divisions over the war as a campaign issue. The G.O.P. also regards itself as the natural political beneficiary of wage-price inflation, insisting for the record...
...grant to the countries he visited the "most-favorednation" trade status already extended to Poland and Yugoslavia. The sticking point, inevitably, is the war in Viet Nam. Though Lyndon Johnson has drafted a trade bill that would remove statutory tariff restrictions against Eastern Europe, it has been quietly shelved. Congressmen, especially in an election year, do not care to risk a "soft on Communism" label. That leaves Bridge Builder Gronouski frustrated. "This is the time to get into position," he told reporters in Budapest. "If we wait five or ten years, the opportunity may pass...
WASHINGTON, April 11--Vice President Humphrey, six Cabinet officers, and two limousines full of Congressmen tried to root the Washington Senators to an opening-day victory over Cleveland today, and failed...