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...Another sentiment: the integration-suspicious feelings of North Carolina Democrat Graham Barden: "There must be something influencing this drastic bill other than the construction of school buildings.'' New York Republican Stuyvesant Wainwright (who eventually voted against the bill) insisted on adding the kiss of death, i.e., a rider (the Powell amendment of last session) withholding federal funds from segregated schools, thereby gave Northern Congressmen an opportunity to make a liberal record by backing him. When all others had finished their say, Virginia's wily Howard Smith moved to strike the bill's enacting clause. Democrat Smith...
...seven successive years (1947-53) Congress tacked on to the State Department Appropriation Act a rider giving the Secretary of State "absolute discretion" to fire any State Department or Foreign Service employee "whenever he shall deem such termination necessary or advisable in the interests of the U.S." This discretion was to be exercised, said the rider, "notwithstanding the provisions of ... any other law." At the same time the State Department's own internal regulations prescribed a procedure for clearance that, in some cases, gave the Secretary of State no power at all to act. Last week, by a vote...
...build a long-delayed $600 million hydroelectric complex near Niagara Falls, the Federal Power Commission refused to consider the application, claimed that it had no jurisdiction. Reason: the U.S. Senate, in ratifying the 1950 U.S.-Canadian treaty on Niagara River water development rights, had tacked on a "reservation" rider forbidding any project-building not "specifically authorized by Act of Congress...
Last summer Congress was convinced that the Yugoslavs, despite massive injections of U.S. aid ($1 billion since 1949), were cozying up to the Kremlin. Under Knowland's prodding a rider to the Mutual Security Appropriation Act banned any new military assistance to Marshal Tito in fiscal 1957 except for maintenance and spare parts. Congress also stipulated that the Administration cut off all aid authorized in previous years and still "in the pipeline," e.g., some $100 million in military hardware, including some 300 Sabre-jet fighter-bombers. The cutoff could be waived if two conditions were met: i) that...
...liberal Democrats have compromised on a bill authorizing $2 billion in aid to states over the next five years, the congressional atmosphere for a school bill is stifling. Not only is New York's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. threatening to tack on again his kiss-of-death integration rider, but congressional budget-cutters are eying with whetted axes the $400 million that would be appropriated for school construction next year. Prognosis: poor, almost hopeless...