Word: congress
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...often in the self-interest of government agencies to ignore the secondary consequences of their decisions. It facilitates both their survival and expansion. In the real world there exists little rational planning. The most critical decisions result haphazardly, for they must be ratified at a number of unrelated levels: Congress, the state legislature, and city council. The New Federalism, which Moynihan is advocating, will encourage more neglect by increasing the strength at each level...
Moynihan's manifesto for a national urban policy is articulate, well documented, but ultimately divisive. It will not rouse the Administration to action: it will not rouse Congress to action; at most it will rouse a few social scientists to speculation. But it deserves a measure of appreciation. It takes a brazen man to outline policy- and national policy, at that- on problems of such complexity that their prolonged study can induce paralysis...
Nixon requested tough new powers to retaliate against countries that erect "unfair" barriers to American exports, or unfairly subsidize their own foreign commerce. Nixon also asked Congress for changes in current law to make it easier for industries, companies or groups of workers that have been hurt by imports to win relief through temporary import restrictions. "To be fair to our trading partners does not require us to be unfair to our own people," he said...
Second Try. As the Johnson Administration vainly proposed last year, Nixon asked Congress to end one venerable U.S. barrier to trade that is regularly cited by foreign governments as justification for their own barriers. That is the "American selling price," which allows duties on benzenoid chemicals used in dyes and vitamins to be set not on the price of the import but on the cost of making the same chemical...
...President offered no proposals intended to help the import-troubled U.S. textile industry. The omission was tactical. U.S. and Japanese negotiators are dickering in Geneva over voluntary quotas for Japanese mills. The U.S. has made it plain to Tokyo that a protectionist-minded Congress might well adopt even harsher measures unless Japan agrees to limit its textile exports...