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Fresh from nearly a month's vacation and eager to face the challenges of a new decade, members of the 91st Congress reconvened last week and got right to work-trying to pass a money bill that should have cleared their chambers in the spring of 1969. The bill is one that will fund most operations of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for fiscal 1970, a year that began last July. It takes in almost all of the Government's aid to education, including funds for libraries, student loans, vocational training and ghetto schools. The congressional...
Stick in the Mud. The net impact of the first half of the 91st Congress was so ambiguous that politicians could readily tag it in any way that served their purposes. Democrat Mansfield called the performance "responsible and respectable." House Republican Leader Gerald Ford termed it a "dolittle Congress, a treading-water Congress, a stick-in-the-mud assembly." In fact, the Congress was indecisive. It both declined to advance much of Nixon's legislative program and failed to establish any clear opposition program of its own. Only belatedly did Congress attend to even its basic housekeeping chores...
...nine-page message to Congress was deftly drafted to carry political punch without obvious polemics; it managed to declare war while appealing for peace. "Let us resolve," Nixon said, "to make the legislative issue of the 1970 campaign the question of who deserves greater credit for the 91st Congress' record of accomplishment, not which of us should be held accountable because it did nothing...
...standard, he handled his duties, official and nonofficial, with devotion. Ted was probably a better Senator than were his two brothers, who found the Senate confining; with only one or two missteps, he served ably. When the 91st Congress assembled in January, he unseated Louisiana's bombastic Russell Long as assistant majority leader. He was a beneficiary, of course, of the grace of being a Kennedy. Without that, he would probably never have won his Senate seat in the first place, and he certainly would never have been considered, at his age and level of experience, a serious presidential contender...
...first five weeks of the Nixon Administration, the costly complex of defensive missiles and radars has become the nexus of several great issues: the allocation of resources between domestic and military programs, overall nuclear strategy and the possibility of arms-limitation negotiations with the Russians. The 91st Congress is more conservative than the 89th-on paper at least-and therefore could be expected to be more sympathetic to requests from the military. Changing public attitudes and political considerations over the past three years, however, have stiffened resistance on Capitol Hill. Many Congressmen are concerned that any hold-down on Government...