Word: foreign-aid
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...Administration's foreign-aid bill got through the Senate last week, but not without a bruise...
Speaker Rayburn, who makes speeches infrequently so that they will be regarded as an occasion, spoke a second time on the. House floor during the week. This time he was trying to save the President's omnibus foreign-aid bill from being amended to shreds. "Do we want friends in the world?" he asked. "Do we need friends . . .? Suppose the democracies of Europe do not stand up, and they are folded within the iron curtain, where will the next war be fought...
...billion of EGA funds for mandatory spending on U.S. crops; they also beat down the Irish amendment (see below). The economy bloc did succeed in cutting $250 million from the Administration's proposed EGA appropriation, and pruned $20 million from the President's Point Four program. The foreign-aid bill as it finally passed the House totaled $3.1 billion: EGA, $2.85 billion; Korean aid, $100 million; China and contiguous areas, $100 million; Arab refugee relief in Palestine, $27.4 million; Point Four, $25 million. Next stop: the Senate...
...this meant that foreign-aid programs would have heavy going: they would be fought not only by their familiar opponents, but by the money savers too. A Congress anxious to get back to the voters would have a hard time getting out of Washington before midsummer...
...position during his term in the House, but this winter he was talking isolation again and his stand had re-won him the favor of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick. Launching his campaign last fall; Dirksen pitched his battle on the field of foreign policy, charging that the bipartisan foreign-aid program is "pouring money down a rathole." At this point, many an Illinois politician thinks Dirksen, an effective campaigner, has at least an even chance of beating Lucas...