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...enacted, but its powers have survived undipped because Rules performs an indispensable function in the lawmaking process. Essentially, the Rules Committee serves as the House's traffic-control device, as necessary as traffic lights at big-city intersections. The House has 437 members, who among them introduce several thousand bills every year. Under an old House rule, every member has a theoretical right to speak for one hour on every bill that comes to the floor. Without firm traffic control, the legislative process would swiftly collapse into chaos. To exercise that control, the Rules Committee is equipped with powers...
Donald J. Eberly, assistant director of the International Students Office, called the proposal "too small." While Millikan suggested limiting the project to "several thousand" people, Eberly saw an eventual need for several hundred thousand. He noted that Afghanistan hopes to increase its elementary educational facilities from 800 to 12,000 schools by 1980, and that in that nation alone, a teacher training program could effectively employ several thousand Americans...
...ISYA should limit itself to about 500 young people during its first several years. Millikan said: fully expanded, it should include a group of several thousand, but no more. In his view, the program is designed to teach specific skills to people in underdeveloped countries-- not to constitute a huge labor force, as some people have suggested...
...peace corps in practice is going to fulfill any of its great promise in principle, it must be something more than the good will of several thousand ardent young Americans. With or without draft exemption, the manpower is probably available and willing to serve, but serious thought is required to determine how it can best be put to use. What kind of peace corps the Kennedy Administration wants, then, is much more important than whether the participants will be granted exemption or deferment from the draft, for youth service per se will solve no problems for the underdeveloped nations...
...withdrawal of perhaps five thousand people from military service would scarcely cripple a defense establishment based more on technical skill than on numbers of men in arms, and these five thousand would surely do more good in the peace corps than in basic training. If draft exemption runs into too much political opposition (and thus endangers the entire program), the least the Administration should insist upon is effective exemption in the form of deferment until...