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...effect of the seniority system on the Federal Government can be explained by three facts: 1) most of the real work in Congress is done in and by committees; 2) the chairmen of these committees have vast, often dictatorial influence over the legislation that falls within their realms; 3) with almost no exceptions, these chairmen have gained their exalted positions for the simple reason that they have been on their committees longer than anyone else in the majority party, which, of course, always controls the committees. The seniority rule thus gives the U.S. the peculiar distinction of having the only...
...agenda and can bring up a bill at their own convenience. In some committees a chairman can refuse to bring up a bill altogether. Mississippi's James Eastland, 66, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one of the most notorious racists in the upper body, has often ignored and sometimes killed civil rights bills by that method. Through similar control of procedures, Wilbur Mills, the Representative of a rural Arkansas constituency, has as much as or more power than the President in determining changes in tax, welfare and Social Security laws, simply because primogeniture has given...
Besides, many have found that they jumped from one form of racism into another, since Vietnamese often do not like dark-skinned people. Add to this the harassment by MPs, the sense of being without a country, and the day-today hassle to raise money, and the frustrations can grow unbearable...
Ramsey's warning was not likely to stir South Africa's three Dutch Reformed churches, whose theology is often cited as a justification for apartheid. But Anglicans, who form the third largest Protestant group in the nation (after the Dutch Reformed churches and Methodists), were not likely to disagree with him. The Church of the Province of South Africa, an autonomous church within the Canterbury Communion, counts some 1,000,000 members, of whom 75% are not white by official South African definition...
...idea that unemployment is necessary to curb inflation is often regarded by politicians as too shocking to be uttered out loud. During the 1968 campaign, Richard Nixon promised to stop inflation while throwing exactly three Americans out of work?the three members of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. That partisan hyperbole encouraged the illusion that inflation can be stopped painlessly. It cannot. Whatever else the Government does, it must tighten spending and credit policies in order to wring excess demand out of the economy. Removing the excess inevitably bounces the marginal workers back onto the streets again...