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Like the weather, the ponderous machinery of the U.S. Congress is a subject for lots of talk and little action. The last time that anyone did anything about it was in 1945, when the late Senator Robert M. LaFollette Jr. Progressive from Wisconsin, and Representative Mike Monroney, Oklahoma Democrat, headed a committee that investigated congressional procedures. Out of that investigation came a legislative reorganization act that, among other things, cut the number of standing congressional committees from 81 to 34, and required Capitol Hill lobbyists to register...
Last fall, 20 years later, Monroney, now a Senator, decided that congressional procedures again needed streamlining. Said he: "Our population has grown from 140 million to nearly 190 million; our gross national product from $218 billion to $623 billion; space and atomic-energy issues have now overshadowed the issues such as which towns get new post offices, and world trade and world credit have replaced the old RFC problems. Our machinery to carry the mammoth load of old and new items needs updating, overhauling, modernizing and revising." And last week, Monroney and Indiana's Democratic Representative Ray J. Madden...
...Monroney-Madden committee will hear two more weeks of testimony from Congressmen, later listen to political scientists, businessmen, labor leaders, and anyone else who has ideas about how to streamline Congress. The committee has until the end of next January to report its recommendations...
...this has convinced many previously hesitant airline officials that the plane is commercially practical, and has turned the congressional head wind against the SST into a tail wind. "My gloom has been dispelled," says Mike Monroney, chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, who less than two years ago was nearly ready to abandon the SST. "I am convinced that it is now time to get our SST off the drawing board." Says Boeing President William M. Allen: "Boeing would be prepared to implement a construction program tomorrow...
...Monroney is now proposing that the Administration underwrite a major part of the SST prototype-development program (the original stand of the U.S. airframe makers), wants to see both a Boeing and a Lockheed prototype. After flight tests and evaluation of the prototypes, the government would make its choice and the winning company would then build production-line ships with its own risk capital; the government would recover its development costs through a royalty arrangement. Washington has an increasingly powerful motivation for giving the go-ahead: if the SST market is forfeited to the British and French, who seem...