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...Raise income taxes and crack down on its flagrant tax-dodging (and in the case of three smaller nations, enact so far neglected personal income-tax laws). Bringing collections up to U.S. standards would produce an extra $2 billion a year for development...
...floor. The chief Republican battler was Dwight Eisenhower, showing a combativeness that he had rarely displayed during his long struggle with Democratic majorities in Congress. He got the session off to a fighting start with a first-blow message calling upon Congress to break the "legislative log jam" and enact 21 measures that he had been calling for since last spring...
...programs is just a little bit silly." He was "just asking for what I have always believed." And "all this talk about Congress having to take weeks and months to get simple actions carried out and accomplished is a little bit silly," too. If the Democrats really wanted to "enact a constructive program, it could be done very quickly, because they've got a 2-to-1 majority in both houses...
...Kennedys and in-laws (including Jackie's pretty sister, Princess Radziwill). The special three-week session of Congress, said Jack, would absorb all of his and L.B.J.'s time and attention until Labor Day; despite Nixon the campaign could wait. During the session, they would attempt to enact such major Democratic planks as medical care for the aged, a $1.25 minimum wage, aid for education, and foreign aid, and if President Eisenhower vetoed or the Republicans closed ranks in opposition, that would stoke up the campaign too. Said Jack Kennedy: "The American people will be quick to spot...
...half-safe at that-the Democrats in Congress tried to save the nation by adding two new states, buying medical research, and bringing in a civil rights bill. "If only there had been a Democrat in the White House," said Church, "there would have been plenty of money to enact housing, unemployment, school construction and other such bills without deficit spending and new taxes...