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Democratic Congressman Otto Ernest Passman, wholesaler of restaurant equipment from Monroe, La., let his temper shoot up past the broiling point a while before dinner one day last week. The "wasters and spenders," he charged broadly, had leaked to reporters the news that his subcommittee was cutting even worse than usual upon this year's Administration proposals for foreign...
Louisiana's Passman was piqued at the leak because, he said, it would give "top-echelon people downtown more time to conduct their unprecedented pressure campaign for more money." Translation: he had hoped to sneak the cuts through the full Appropriations Committee next day, before the Eisenhower Administration got a chance to renew its all-out fight for an adequate aid program...
...Passman showed who was boss next morning (his 58th birthday), when the full committee voted down two attempts to restore specific cuts. In a final nose-thumbing, the committee chopped the appropriation for the Administration's imaginative Development Loan Fund from a requested $625 million all the way down to $300 million. By the time the committee got through with its report for the House, the military and economic-aid appropriation had been cut to $3,078,000,000-a dangerous fall from the $3,950,092,000 in the original Administration plan and a serious slip below...
FOREIGN AID. The Administration will ask just under $4 billion for continued foreign economic aid ($3.4 billion this fiscal year), is bracing for the usual anti-aid blasts. Last week came the first blast. Louisiana's Congressman Otto E. Passman, Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Aid, charged that a State Department report on how Russia is spending $1.9 billion worth of foreign aid in underdeveloped nations (see FOREIGN NEWS) was released to scare Congress into upping...
FOREIGN AID. The Administration will seek substantial increases, particularly in military support. Despite the obvious argument for such aid as a corollary to defense, the first rumblings from returnees to the Hill indicate trouble. Among the probable troublemakers: Louisiana's Otto Passman, chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that controls the Mutual Security purse strings, a bitter foe of foreign...