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Members of Congress are reluctant to do away with a system that has been such a popular success. Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), the President's choice to steer his health-education package through Congress, has said the House is unlikely to go along with Johnson unless he offers "concrete guarantees that no one will be hurt" by phasing out the NDEA. Rep. John Brademas (D-Ind.), who serves on the House Committee on Education and Labor with Mrs. Green, has predicted that the President will face fierce fights in both houses...
...President's reasons for tossing aside these objections is patently political. He wants to go on record "as trying to keep the budget deficit down," according to Rep. James H. Scheuer (D-N.Y.); if the government insures the loans, the full amount will not have to be listed on the budget. Congressmen speculate that the President will gracefully accept defeat on this issue and others--including the school lunch program--if Congress is willing to accept blame for the budget deficit...
Technically, the President is already empowered by the 1965 Act to implement the guaranteed loan program. He is sending the proposal to Congress, Rep. James H. Scheuer (D-N.Y.), a member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, said last night, to "see what we think...
...Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), a high-ranking member of the Committee and the person who may steer Johnson's entire education program through the House, predicted last night that Congress may offer some opposition to the current plan and "a good deal more" to the proposal to end NDEA loans. "We think the NDEA loan program has been a success, and we will need concrete guarantees that no one will be hurt if we change it," she said
...Washington, the Council will speak to Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill (D-Cambridge), and Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.). They will also present their case before Rex M. Whitton, administrator of the Bureau of Public Roads. The federal federal government will pay 90 per cent of the costs of the Inner Belt...