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...each year. This year the payment is $43 million--12 per cent of the total District budget. But the Appropriations Committees review the entire budget. As a result some Congressmen have consistently blocked expenditures the District wanted to make. The classic example is the action of Rep. Andrew Natcher (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House District appropriations subcommittee, whose resistance has prevented replacement of the dilapidated Shaw Junior High School. Sen Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), head of the corresponding Senate subcommittee, has made welfare payments--particularly to parents of illegitimate children--his special target...
...also neglected to act on the projected increase in monthly benefits to the twenty million who now receive Social Security. The modest increment in benefit checks had been approved by both Houses, but it was pulled down with Medicare when Sens. Russell Long (D-La.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), and Albert Gore (D-Tenn.)--presumably under orders from the White House--refused to agree in conference committee to any bill without Medicare attached...
...lobbyists will then visit 35 Senators whose positions on the civil rights bill are considered "equivocal" and present them with petitions. The legislators who will be approached include Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), Everett Dirksen (R-III.), Frank Lausche (D-Ohio), Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), Karl Mundt (R-S. Da.), and John Tower (R-Texas...
...margin of the 50-34 victory of the Youth Employment Bill that impressed the proposal's backers, but the support the measure won from Southern Senators; Olin Johnston (D-S.C.), George Smathers (D-Fla.), Russell Long (D-La.), Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), all voted for the bill...
Senator Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) will speak to a Memorial Hall audience tomorrow at 2:15 under the auspices of the newly-formed "Kefauver for President" Club. Dixon Donnelly, the Senator's press manager, said that the talk would definitely deal with the coming campaign and its issues...