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After two of the longest, most grueling sessions in memory, the 89th Congress feverishly wound up its business last week and adjourned. With its final key measure, appropriating $5 billion for various Great Society programs-the 50th major bill adopted in the current session-Congress had in 1966 alone approved legislation that ranged from an anti-jellyfish measure to a new antipoverty law, and authorized expenditures of some $144.6 billion, second only to the $147 billion that it appropriated for a world...
...89th was the first Congress to address itself-in its legislative thrust as well as its membership-to the U.S. as a nation of city dwellers. Largely concerned with "the real dynamics of urban life," in President Johnson's phrase, it marched against the problems of slum housing, overcrowded streets, underemployed minorities, inadequate schools, polluted air and water, rising crime, complicated tax structures and shrinking recreational facilities. And it produced its prodigious array of social and economic legislation in spite of the tension and upheaval caused by a costly war. Indeed, the 89th went further than any other...
...Lyndon Johnson's proud prejudgment, historians will record it as "The Great Congress." And so they may. But few would claim that the 89th's finest hours came in 1966. After a historic first session that passed 105 important bills, the Congress generally thumb-twiddled its way through its second session, only to burst into a fevered eleventh-hour blur of action that added little to its luster...
Along with all its last-minute lapses, the 89th last week managed to come up with final votes on only a few other major measures-notably a $4.1 billion public-works measure and a $186 million bill to expand official efforts to combat air pollution. Preliminary floor action was taken on several other significant bills, but in every case, final resolution was left until this week-which is expected to be the 89th's last...
...week's end it seemed unlikely that the President would call a post-election special session, mainly in order to put through the tax increase that he is anxious to postpone until after the election, and it was probable that the 89th would somehow charge hell-bent and headlong through most of its remaining business and adjourn around Oct. 20. To that end, the Congress frantically slammed through several major bills last week. Among them...