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While Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield declared Johnson "has done the best he could to keep the budget within minimal, manageable limits," some liberal Democrats urged more spending on Great Society programs...
Both Democrats and Republicans promised that Congress will take a hard look at spending proposals before voting on them. Mansfield conceded that Congress will approve less than Johnson recommended...
...chronic. The inevitable consequence has been a withering fusillade of criticism aimed at the Great Society. Democratic Governors complained to Johnson that his programs had sown confusion in their states by gorging them with cash and concepts that they were simply not prepared to handle. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged the 90th Congress to conduct a "top-to-bottom" re-evaluation of Great Society programs to repair "rough edges, overextensions, overlaps, and perhaps even significant gaps." Congress seems more than willing to oblige...
Oversight Function. The changed temper goes well beyond mere numbers and partisan disagreements over specific issues. The wide extent of the new mood was illustrated last week by statements from two high-ranking Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Vice President Hubert Humphrey...
...Mansfield declared that the time had come for Congress to defer major new legislation until it could examine the many complex, expensive programs already enacted. He said roughly the same thing last year-and was largely ignored. This year, because they reflect the current mood of Congress so well, his remarks were greeted as a bellwether. "It occurs to me," said Mansfield in a letter to 17 committee chairmen, "that the next Congress will see the convergence of a unique opportunity with a great need for a concentrated Senate exercise of the oversight function. I would hope...