Word: omnibus
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...President's plan is apparently to try to get federal aid through Congress by wrapping it all up in a big package containing something for everyone. His omnibus bill has in it the kind of general aid to public schools that runs into constant trouble, but it also has more than ever of the selective aid in specific fields that Congress has been approving since the birth of the republic. The one-package idea also seeks to unite rival organizations -notably, the American Council on Education, which lobbies for colleges, and the National Education Association, which last year helped...
...Administration's legislative record compares favorably with any since the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt. Steered intact through the divided 87th Congress were a $394 million depressed areas bill, an increase in the minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour with expanded minimum wage coverage, an omnibus $6.8 billion housing bill, a controversial feed-grains bill, a huge, eleven-year, $21 billion interstate highways bill. Most of the credit belongs to Larry O'Brien, a man who hates to lose. "We never know when we're beaten," he says of himself and his staff...
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman could hardly say he hadn't been warned. For weeks, at first diplomatically and then bluntly, Capitol Hill farm leaders had been telling him that his omnibus farm bill could not win congressional approval. The key and most controversial provision of that bill: to give Freeman the power to consult with farmers and work out subsidy and control plans for each commodity. Congress could approve or disapprove each scheme as it stood, but would not be able to amend any program or write...
...Administration's omnibus $6.8 billion housing program (TIME, June 30), which will be financed out of general revenues, got final passage in the House and Senate, and went to the White House for President Kennedy's signature...
Absent Edges. Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek presented a reasoned argument centered in the idea that the "networks must not go on, in the name of freedom, polluting air they do not own." His proposal: set up several nonprofit organizations, staffed by experts in various fields who would select programs; the networks would simply function as agents selling air time, but would have no control over shows. Writer-Producer Robert Alan (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Aurthur, whose rhetoric was particularly eloquent when he was describing the "cold, slitted eyes of advertising men," revealed that low-flying, low-quality ABC, the network...