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Other action last week on Capitol Hill: ¶ After easily beating off attempts to tie in new civil rights legislation, the Senate voted 70-19 to extend for another two years the life of the watchdog Civil Rights Commission...
...uniform accounting procedures, which was instituted by the National Health Council long before the Rockefeller Committee was formed. My criticism of the Rockefeller report was that it undermined the right of voluntary association by suggesting that the American people need a "Big Brother" in the form of a watchdog commission. I resent, as do our millions of volunteers, implications that we have not served our stewardship well...
...rule of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, and advocated new appropriations that would have added an estimated $23 billion annually to the federal budget. Now, in the current session, Proxmire has inexplicably become an economic conservative. Most of his efforts have been to trim back appropriations. "He's a watchdog of the Treasury now." marvels one Wisconsin colleague. Counters Proxmire: "I've felt this way for a long time...
...nation with a record gross national product of $515 billion; as the fiscal housekeeper for the U.S. Government, Dillon works within the roomy confines of the largest peacetime budget in history-$87.7 billion. But unlike most of his Treasury Department predecessors, Dillon does not consider himself simply a watchdog of the taxpayer's dollar. "He believes in good housekeeping," says a Treasury staffer, "not just to admire the house, but in order to utilize it.'' To Dillon, the U.S. economy is a dynamic weapon in the cold war, an arsenal of dollars that must be strategically employed...
Though Dr. Larson had been active in arranging scientific programs for his district society, it was less ambition than recruitment that started him on the way to A.M.A. leadership. A senior partner in Quain & Ramstad was the state medical society's legislative watchdog. When he retired, he put the arm on Larson. "I volunteered by means of appointment," says Larson. In the Bismarck statehouse, Dr. Larson learned the bitter way about politics: the M.D.s took a crushing defeat when they tried to keep out osteopaths and chiropractors by legislation...