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...this point the game got all too predictably out of hand. First, Rep. Thomas Morgan, chairman of the authorizing committee, was notably unimpressed with the "rock-bottom" request. He was fairly certain, in fact, that his committee would sanction a figure "something under" last year's actual appropriation of $3.9 billion. Second, General Clay himself, after weeks of haunting Mr. Bell's office and House hearing rooms, began to run wild. He had examined the President's apparent humiliation to his committee's wishes, and had discovered that two-thirds of the White House education was a "paper...
...Almost all the passionate advocates of capital punishment are in, the House," said Rep. Mary B. Newman (R-Cambridge). "The House has perennially voted overwhelmingly against abolition of the death penalty, and there's no reason why it should do any differently this year...
...Rep. Newman, who said she is "a strong proponent" of the abolition of capital punishment, attributed the Senate's passage of the bill to the "active leadership of majority leader John Powers and other senators." Unfortunately, she said, there is no such strong House leadership...
...second straight year, President Kennedy's aid-to-education bill is getting smothered in the Congress. The Administration passed the word two weeks ago to Congressional supporters to abandon their efforts to extricate Rep. Edith Green's aid-to-higher-education bill from the House Rules Committee, and instead to push for college aid through Kennedy's omnibus education measure. As the President knows, this is the equivalent of pushing a dead horse. Even if the Administration could succeed in getting its bill to the floor of the House, opposition from Roman Catholics to the provision for aid to secondary...
...bill, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Harrison Williams (D-N.J.), and in the House by Rep. Frank Thompson (D-N.J.), would limit the Corps to 1000 members during its first year of operation. Ultimately, the Corps might be expanded to 5000 or more...