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...costs $1 billion a year to operate Congress, against $150 million only 20 years ago. Some Washington experts fear that these hardworking, generally bright technocrats are devoted primarily to the re-election of their congressional bosses and too inclined to justify their jobs by producing needless legislation. Others contend that these staffs provide Congress with the research and vital expertise it needs to assess the torrent of information churned out by the Administration's massive bureaucracy...
Historians and political scientists with long memories contend that Congress has often been ponderous, frustratingly slow and unharnessable. Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's sensational, Depression-generated 100 days, a Democratic-controlled Congress soon reverted to its traditional friction with the White House, leading F.D.R. to com plain about its mulishness...
Opponents claim that credits would violate the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, since 80% of private school students are in parochial schools. They also contend that the legislation would damage the public school system by encouraging parents to put their children in private schools; an estimated 5 million students are enrolled in private schools, compared with 40 million in public schools, and that ratio has remained fairly steady over the past 15 years. Moreover, the tax credits would drain away funds needed to improve public education. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "There...
Hard-core runners who zip by usually sneer at us. I know those lean, muscled and intense women are mentally belittling us for not being purists, for diverting our minds to enjoyable thoughts while our call muscles strain. I contend that if the Beatles or The Cars make the difference for me between running and walking. I'm going to continue to "Let the Good Times Roll...
...involved so visibly and officially in so many public controversies at the same time. Church agencies and activists are playing a major role in a variety of local conflicts and in four national issues in particular: El Salvador, where they adamantly oppose U.S. military aid; nuclear arms, which they contend both sides should stop building; Reaganomic budget slashing, which they consider devastating for poor Americans; and abortion, which the church condemns in virtually all cases. The last, abortion, comes most directly out of traditional Catholic doctrine and represents a right-of-center stance, while the other three positions find allies...