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...conservatives won. The boycott resolutions were smothered in committee. The House of Delegates adopted an omnibus resolution proclaiming the A.M.A.'s devotion to the freedom and high quality of medical care, to the profession's code of ethics, and to the Kerr-Mills Act, which provides federal-state help to people who declare themselves "medically indigent." The delegates then sidestepped and agreed to review the effects of medicare after it becomes law, then "take whatever action is deemed necessary...
...subcommittee of the House District Committee has approved an "omnibus crime bill" (and a crime it is) that would suspend Constitutional safeguards against arrests for investigation and unreasonable delays between the arrest and arraignment before a magistrate...
Even the packing did not curb the Rules Committee. It refused to let the House act on President Kennedy's omnibus education bill and refused to send another such bill to conference after both houses had passed it. Mass transit, youth conservation corps, and other administration bills were stuck in the committee for months...
...Chances. Disconcertingly, for those who have read the book, the series started with two figures, one of whom was given only two paragraphs by Kennedy, the other mentioned not at all. Reason is that Producer Robert Saudek, who has been responsible for much of the best in television, from Omnibus to the New York Philharmonic, needed fourteen more profiles than President Kennedy had chronicled. But Kennedy himself approved the additional choices...
...annual profit over to the Treasury. Another Bennett innovation is saner sentencing. In the old days, all federal sentences were for fixed periods, and a parole board could not even consider a case until one-third of a convict's term had elapsed. Bennett inspired the 1958 Omnibus Sentencing Act, which allows far greater parole flexibility and permits a judge to jail a man for three to six months of observation before final sentencing, thus encouraging courts to tailor the rap to the man. As a result of Bennett's pioneering, only 10% of federal prisoners serve more...