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...seems likely, the full House accepts the committee's report this week, Powell will be allowed to take his seat in the 90th Congress. After taking his oath, the committee said, he should be "brought to the bar of the House in the custody of the sergeant-at-arms and be there publicly censured by the Speaker in the name of the House."* In addition, Powell would lose his 22 years of seniority, dropping from 31st in standing to 434th among 435 members (one other seat is presently vacant). He would thus have to exchange his large, plush office...
...Negro workers and school children in support of Adam Clayton Powell proved a total flop. In New York, a meeting of national Negro leaders to promote backing for him was postponed indefinitely. In Washington, the special House committee investigating the Harlem Democrat's fitness to serve in the 90th Congress could only elicit evidence that he should...
...initial production and deployment of antiballistic missiles in the event that negotiations with the Russians to bar such weapons fail. Thus, large as it is, the defense budget represents an attempt to hold the line on military spending-an attempt that is certain to be challenged by the 90th Congress...
...size of the budget-a record $135 billion-the President has relatively little room in which to maneuver. At least $100 billion can neither be cut nor shifted around. The rest will certainly come in for what House Appropriations Committee Chairman George Mahon calls a "skeptical evaluation" from the 90th Congress...
...been a withering fusillade of criticism aimed at the Great Society. Democratic Governors complained to Johnson that his programs had sown confusion in their states by gorging them with cash and concepts that they were simply not prepared to handle. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged the 90th Congress to conduct a "top-to-bottom" re-evaluation of Great Society programs to repair "rough edges, overextensions, overlaps, and perhaps even significant gaps." Congress seems more than willing to oblige...