Word: health
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Contrary to the President's hopes, lobbying in the Eighty-First Congress has been vigorous. Strong pressure groups have opposed extention of rent control, fought pending action on labor legislation, and skirmished heatedly in the recent issue of national health insurance. Congressmen react varyingly to these outside influences. Nevertheless there appears to be considerable feeling in Washington that the present lobby law, placed on the books three years ago, has reached the change of life and is now becoming impotent. This law requires registration of lobbyists and imposes heavy fines on those who fail to comply. Difficulty has arisen, however...
...Bill of Health...
...Neither Congress nor any government agency ever said I was a Communist," Edelman stated. "On Tuesday the Senate gave me a clean bill of health. The press is the real evil. It brings tremendous suffering to the family and friends...
...Administration's compulsory health insurance bill "offers close to complete coverage, deals adequately with the crucial problem of expansion of facilities and personnel, and proposes much needed organizational improvement," Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics told a Senate labor subcommittee yesterday...
Democratic leaders curtailed the administration's program for this session of Congress yesterday by stripping the hotly contested health insurance and civil tights proposals off the "must" list. At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas indicated he expects no Senate action this session on President Truman's $4,000,000,000 tax boost plan, the new Brannan farm plan, or the foreign arms program...