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September 27, 1965
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX
A5469
[From the Baltimore Evening Sun,
In this event the President's active support
Sept. 22, 1965]
of MANSFIELD'S highly constructive program
MANSFIELD DESCRIBES PLAN To CORRECT
may be required. And, although he can
PASSED BILLS
sense a political liability as keenly as any
(By Arthur Krock)
politician in the American past or present,
WASHINGTON, September 22.-Senator
he is also alert to the hazard in exposing
MANSFIELD, the majority leader, is about to
it as the unmistakable motive for the rejec-
demonstrate once more that when he says
tion of a plan so obviously in the public in-
terest. And that interest is implicit in a
something should be done he means to fol-
low through. Recently he proposed that the
simple catalog of the measures he drove
next session of the 89th Congress "spend less
through this session of Congress.
time on new legislation and more time cor-
Moreover, Vice President HUMPHREY may
recting oversights in legislation we have just
not have been speaking entirely on his own,
passed." Today, reached by telephone in his
if he has been accurately reported as believ-
home State of Montana, he described the
ing "the huge legislative tonnage dropped
practical steps with which he plans to give
on our doorstop" should undergo the man-
effect to his proposal.
agement analysis to which Defense Secre-
"I intend to submit it for action at a
tary McNamara subjects all military pro-
Democratic Senate conference before ad-
grams. And this is precisely what Senator
journment," he said. "We have passed a lot
MANSFIELD intends to propose to the Demo-
of major bills at this session, some of them
cratic Senate conference.
very hastily, and they stand in extreme need
"TONNAGE" LISTED
of a going-over for loopholes, rough corners,
This "tonnage" already consists of the fol-
and particularly for an assessment of current
lowing on which action has been completed
and ultimate cost in the framework of our
medical care; financial help for Appalachia;
capacity to meet it."
the financing of regional development; ele-
OVERSEEING SUBCOMMITTEES
mentary-secondary education; omnibus pub-
"In reminding the conference of this,
I
lic housing; a new department of housing;
plan to ask for the creation of overseeing
reduced excise taxes, and foreign aid. Near-
subcommittees among whose functions it
ing final enactment are financing programs
would be to tighten up the hasty enactments
for higher education, depollution of the wa-
in general and evaluate the degree of effi-
ters, a supplemental antipoverty law, a na-
ciency with which they are being adminis-
tional arts foundation, and omnibus farm
tered by the executive."
subsidies legislation.
The plan seems marked for resistance in
To this partial list of Federal undertak-
the Democratic Senate conference, despite its
ings at undetermined costs and wholly spec-
urgent necessity. And pressure against it
ulative effects on the socioeconomy admin-
may be expected from House Democrats also.
istration pressure is now being exerted for
For the next session will occur in the year of
a health conservation program more revolu-
the general congressional elections. And
tionary than medicare and even more specu-
Democrats from States and districts where
lative as to cost. This calls for the estab-
the 1964 landslide broke a long pattern of
lishment of a network of at least 1,350
electing Republicans will in all likelihood
diagnostic and treatment centers for heart
prefer to postpone the risk inherent in
disease, cancer, and stroke. A host of sur-
such a reexamination and appraisal. Fearful
gical teams and other hospital specialists
Democratic candidates for reelection con-
would be paid for by grants from the Fed-
ceivably will even include some who sought
eral Government.
to stem the legislative onrush of the Presi-
dent and the party majority toward the wel-
fare state goal of the Great Society.
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