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When the 88th Congress adjourned without acting on the Administration's Medicare proposal, it also neglected to act on the projected increase in monthly benefits to the twenty million who now receive Social Security. The modest increment in benefit checks had been approved by both Houses, but it was pulled...
While Republican leader Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-III.) is reportedly opposed, Republican opposition may not be unanimous. Conservatives, particularly Sens. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and Peter Dominick (R-Colo.), put similar, though more generous, bills in the hopper last session. These men have claimed tax credit is a "means for...
The Senate approved the bill after rejecting a move by Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R.Neb.) to strike the Research Center item from the space budget. The 45-21 vote followed party lines, although two Democrats, Sens. Frank Lausche of Ohio and William Proxmire of Wisconsin, voted against the Center.
The pained howls of Senators Goldwater, Stennis, Thurmond and others of limited social conscience have a somewhat ludicrous ring to them. Surely the Junior Senator from Arizona does not seriously propose that an order preventing military personnel from patronizing businesses which do not uphold the basic freedoms and decencies the...
Speaking "as an amateur" on "an issue I feel strongly about," Hughes differed sharply with two Senators who have said that a test-ban treaty would probably not win Senate ratification. Hughes predicted that both Sens. Leverett R. Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.) and Frank Church (D-Idaho) would vote for...