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Individual members argue means instead of parties arguing ends; disputes are usually handled by compromise rather than conflict. Only a rather narrow range of passable legislation enjoys a fairly large consensus. The provisions of a bill that can be passed depend as much upon negotiations in committee and off the record consultations as upon the division of votes in the full body. Many of the proposed reforms threaten to reduce the disproportionate influence which a few Congressmen exercise over this backstage bargaining...
Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Resources and Planning, asked the Planning Office to undertake the survey. The idea grew out of a consensus among the five members of the Tenth House Committee, of which Trottenberg is chairman, that such a survey would be valuable...
Duprey returned with the news that Athenagoras was eager for the meeting, although as spokesman for Orthodoxy he had first to get the approval of the other patriarchates and autocephalous churches. By last week Athenagoras felt that the consensus favored his going, dispatched two prelates to the Vatican to work out final details of the encounter...
...Babies. After all the talk about a cut, the business community's consensus in its favor seems based in part on anxiety about what might happen if there were none. Many businessmen have already reckoned the tax bill in making their future estimates. Chairman Charles M. Beeghly of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. warns that "if it were lost, I think this would have a serious adverse psychological influence on the economy." No one knows for certain whether Congress will pass the bill, though its prospects are looking up. Tax cut or no, the economy in 1964 promises to continue...
...there talking, just as I would with Jerry Ford, George Romney, Bill Scranton and all the rest. My position is just as clear as it ever was. I am hopeful that every Republican leader with any kind of audience will help discuss the basic issues, will help develop a consensus, so that the people will have a better chance in finding a voice, in picking a candidate...