Word: district
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Last session, for the umpteenth time, a bill granting home rule to the District of Columbia failed to reach a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. President Johnson has now decided to try a new approach. He proposes to reshuffle the present organization of the District into a proto-mayor-council government, using his authority under the Reorganization...
This procedure gives the Administration an advantage which it normally does not have in its dealings with Congress on the District. For once, Congressional inertia will be its ally rather than its antagonist. In light of past Congressional-D.C. relations, inertia can be a powerful ally...
...President's plan also includes providing the District with "an ample quota' 'of supergrade executive positions. The independent agencies which now form part of the D.C. government, such as the National Capital Planning Commission, would not be affected by the reorganization...
Along with his reorganization plan, Johnson has promised to send to Congress two proposals for legislation: first, a Constitutional amendment giving the District a voting delegate to the House and "such additional representatives in the House and Senate as Congress may from time to time provide"; second, while the amendment is being considered, Congressional approval for a non-voting delegate to the House...
...ruling followed a four-day preliminary hearing requested by District Attorney Jim Garrison...