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    "ocrText": "2\nCONGRESSIONAL RECORD\nCONGRESSIONAL RECORD\n3\nGREEN, of Oregon, took the floor to pro-\nprotect the religious liberty of employees\nwell as vocational education and public\nadministration of seeking to \"warp the\nlion does not include additional back-\nsupported by a majority of the House\ntest, \"Today it seems to me we have in\nwhose religious beliefs clash with com-\nassistance programs.\nproposed Federal Public Records legisla-\ndoor spending of $7 billion made possible\nRepublicans. In every case the Repub-\nthe House a determined effort to silence\npulsory union membership, and to in-\nThe Manpower Development and\ntion into an almost unlimited authority\nby the Congress this year. Nor does it\nlican alternative dealt more adequately\nthose who are in disagreement.*\nsure that employees would be protected\nTraining Act overlaps the poverty pro-\nfor the President to establish broader\ninclude perhaps $5 to $7 billion needed\nwith the problem without unnecessary\nSo little was the elementary and sec-\nfrom compulsion to join a Communist-\ngram.\nsecrecy practices.\" The committee also\nfor the war in Vietnam, a request which\nextension of Federal power.\nondary education bill studied before floor\ncontrolled union.\nOne unfortunate oversight in the laws\nindicted the administration for \"the se-\nthe administration is holding back until\nVOTING RIGHTS\naction that two of the best informed\nThe Washington Post commented:\nof the session can be cited to illustrate\ncrecy on the names of Post Office Depart-\nnext January.\nThe administration's bill on voting\nsupporters of the measure, gave to the\nSeveral important questions were raised\nthe results of hasty and ill-considered\nment employees hired in the summer\nThe Congress failed to exercise any\nrights-H.R. 6400-as originally intro-\nHouse contradictory explanations of its\nin the House debate and left unanswered.\ncongressional action. By increasing\nprogram in 1965; the Defense Depart-\nrestraint on reckless spending. The re-\nduced, provided a remedy for discrimina-\napplication to nonpublic schools.\nsocial security payments, the Congress\nment continues the October 1962, Sylves-\nThe Democratic majority rammed\nduction of administration requests for\ntion only in six Southern States and\nThe higher education bill was reported\nthrough a bill repealing section 14(b)\ninadvertently caused the termination or\nter Directive which requires military and\nappropriations by $2.4 billion is more\nAlaska and in 37 counties in certain\nout of the Education and Labor Com-\nreduction of the pensions of tens of thou-\ncivilian personnel to report all contacts\napparent than real. The funds denied\nmittee in great haste, apparently at the\nwhich the Post said \"scarcely qualifies as\nother States, including one county each\nsands of veterans. The added social\nwith the press to Sylvester's office; the\nhave only been deferred until 1966.\nwell-rounded legislation in the national\nin Arizona, Idaho, and Maine, These\ncommand of the White House. The\ninterest.*\nsecurity payment meant a reduction of\nincreased centralization of information\nThe following table shows the amount\nstrange results were achieved by lan-\nWall Street Journal noted that the com-\nthe income of these veterans.\nreleases at the White House, and the in-\nappropriated by Congress in each ses-\nmittee \"under prodding from an im-\nOn the important bill to prohibit dis-\nguage which limited the application of\nWEAKENING OF CHECKS ON EXECUTIVE BRANCH\ncreasing sensitivity over leaks of infor-\nsion since 1960. It reflects an increase\ncrimination in employment and union\nthe bill to places which used literacy tests\npatient White House deliberated for all\nmation that have no connection with\nOne-party domination of the legisla-\nof $36 billion, or 43 percent, since 1960.\nof 20 minutes.\" Democratic Congress-\nmembership, only the briefest of hear-\nor tests of moral character for voters and\ntive and executive branches weakens the\nnational security problems; the basic\nOf this $36 billion increase, only $8.3\nings were held by the Committee on Edu-\nin which fewer than 50 percent of the\nman PUCINSKI, of Illinois, called) the\ncation and Labor. These hearings con-\nconstitutional system of checks and bal-\nproblem of balancing national security\nbillion is for defense:\nvoting-age population voted in the 1964\nbill's handling \"a mockery of the legis-\nances. The subservient Congress which\ninterests and freedom for the press in\ntained no testimony based on experience\n[In billions]\nelection.\nlative process.\"\nconnection with Vietnam and the Do-\nunder the 1964 Civil Rights Act and were\nit produces fails to exercise the restraint\nRepublican House Members and Re-\nHearings on the administration's orig-\nwhich it should over the executive\nminican Republic.\"\nAppropria-\nChange from\nfollowed almost immediately by a sub-\nSession\ntions\npreceding\npublican Senators introduced voting\ninal highway beautification proposals\nThere is no word but arrogance for the\nyear\ncommittee meeting which reported the\nbranch. The majority leader of the\nrights legislation before the administra-\nwere held by the Committee on Public\nbill favorably. An hour later the full\nSenate recognizes that such is the case\nbehavior of administration spokesmen,\ntion got around to deciding to present a\nWorks on July 20, 21, and 22. These\nincluding the President and the Vice\n86th Cong.: 2d (1960)\n$83.8\ncommittee met and reported the bill to\nwhen he urges the Congress now to un-\n87th Cong.:\nbill.\nhearings were adjourned with the un-\nPresident, when they pointedly imply\n1st (1961)\n95.8\n+$12.0\nthe House. No amendments were offered\ndertake its neglected function of legisla-\n2d (1962)\n102.3\n+6.5\nThe basic difference between the ad-\nderstanding that the complex proposals\nthat the consideration which the prob-\n88th Cong.\nbecause none of the minority members\ntive oversight over executive agencies.\n1st (1963)\n102.6\n+.3\nministration proposal and the major Re-\nshould be studied further and acted upon\nThe executive branch unchecked is\nlems of a locality receives in Washington\n2d (1964)\n106.0\n+3.4\nearly next year. Without warning, the\nhad any opportunity to study the long\npublican alternative, the Ford-McCul-\nwill depend on whether its local officials\n89th Cong.: 1st (1965)\n119.3\n+13.8\nand complex measure and analyze even\nprone to carelessness about legal re-\nloch bill-H.R. 7896-lay in the fact that\nhearings were reopened on September 3\nstraints and about the public interest.\nare Republicans or Democrats. It is\nits theoretical weaknesses. This bill was\nCONSTRUCTIVE REPUBLICAN RECORD\nthe Republican bill provided a remedy\nand 7, while the committee and its staff\nThis carelessness can descend to the\nshocking to learn that responsible na-\nfor unconstitutional discrimination\nwere absorbed with the omnibus rivers\nnot acted on by the House.\nlevel of arrogance in some instances.\ntional officials would stoop to threaten\nOn February 3, 1965, the Republican\nwherever it occurs and regardless of the\nand harbors and flood control bill. The\nThe percentages allocated to the vari-\nArrogance is a strong word, but there\nany community with reprisals if its citi-\nleadership of the House of Representa-\ndevice used to achieve discrimination.\nact was debated and passed by the House\nous categories of immigrants in the Im-\nzens choose officials who are not of the\ntives said:\non October 7, with the final vote being\nmigration and Nationality Act of 1965\nis no other word for the submission to\nThe administration bill wiped out\nthe Senate of the nomination of Francis\nadministration's party.\nHouse Republicans have a major responsi-\nliteracy and other tests wherever fewer\ntallied well after midnight. At one point\nwere not discussed either in the Judiciary\nThe New York Times reacted with in-\nbility as the representatives of approximately\nCommittee or on the floor.\nX. Morrissey to the Federal judiciary nor\ndignation to the threat when it was made\n43 percent of the electorate who voted for a\nthan 50 percent of the voting age popu-\nin the proceedings the House voted 121\nOn the voting rights bill, the admin-\nfor the efforts to bull that nomination\nRepublican House of Representatives in 1964.\nlation voted in 1964. The Ford-McCul-\nto 84 to allow but 8 minutes of debate on\nin\nthrough the Senate. The American Bar\nNew York City. Its editorial\nistration forces on the Judiciary Commit-\nThat duty, as we conceive it, is to exert what-\nloch bill did not disturb nondiscrimina-\n5 separate amendments.\ncommented:\ntee methodically rejected all significant\nAssociation and the Massachusetts Bar\never influence we can to guide the Nation\ntory qualifications for voting established\nRegarding the very controversial bill to\nAssociation pronounced this nominee un-\nThis is a remarkable indictment of the\ntoward the goals of freedom, security, peace,\nby States.\nrepeal section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley\namendments offered by Republicans. On\nfit for the post. A representative of the\nJohnson administration. It suggests, for\nand well-being with fiscal responsibility.\nthe floor of the House the same general\nThe administration bill required Fed-\nAct, the Democratic majority of the Com-\nexample, that Sargent Shriver, the head of\nAmerican Bar Association testified on the\nWe cannot accept the statement, \"The\nattitude prevailed. With the exception\nthe antipoverty program and a Democrat,\neral court approval of any new voting\nmittee on Education and Labor rejected\nduty of the opposition party is to oppose.\"\nof the Cramer amendment to prevent\nMorrissey nomination:\nall attempts by Republican members to\nwould be less sympathetic and helpful to New\nThis is too narrow and too negative a formu-\nlaws passed by the States to which it\nelection irregularities, any significant\nFrom the standpoint of legal training,\nYork if its mayor were a Republican. It\namend the bill so as to provide some\nlation of our responsibility.\napplied. The Ford-McCulloch bill did\namendment offered by a Republican was\nlegal experience, and legal ability, we have\nmakes the same innuendo about the officials\nWe must do more than respond to the in-\nnot restrict State authority to enact new\nbasic protections for rank-and-file em-\nployees compelled to join unions in order\nblindly voted down.\nnot had any case where these factors were\nwho run the housing, education, mass tran-\nitiatives of the administration. We must\nnondiscriminatory voting laws.\nso lacking.\nsit, antipollution, and other programs in\ntake the initiative ourselves in two ways.\nto hold their jobs. Because of the re-\nGAPS AND OVERLAPS\nThe administration bill, as originally\nThere is no word but arrogance for\nwhich New York has a vital interest. It sug-\nFirst, we must offer alternative measures to\nstrictive rule under which the bill was\nThe defects in the legislation enacted\ngests that President Johnson, Vice President\nthe withholding of Federal funds from\ncope with national problems when the ad-\nintroduced, approved of the poll tax, pro-\nconsidered by the House, amendments\nduring the session of Congress just\nHUMPHREY, and Senator KENNEDY himself\nministration's proposals are unwise. This we\nviding that Federal examiners would\nwhich would permit compulsory union\nended will come to light as the bills are\nthe city of Chicago in defiance of the\nwould not be so helpful to the mayor of the\nare doing, for example, in the matter of\ncollect it in areas in which they operated\nmembership agreements only if the\nput into effect. Problems of duplica-\nprocedures established by Congress.\nNation's largest city if he were of a political\nlightening the burden of the costs of health\nto register voters. The Ford-McCulloch\nunions involved refrained from racial\ntion and overlap will be encountered.\nThere is no word but arrogance for\nfaith different from theirs.\ncare for older people.\nbill directed the Attorney General to ini-\nand religious discrimination, refrained\nThe Appalachia bill overlaps several\nprocedures in the Congress that silence\nFISCAL EXCESSES\nSecond, we must press for action to deal\ntiate a speedy court test of the constitu-\nfrom using union funds for political pur-\nexisting Federal-aid programs, notably\ndissent and preclude careful considera-\nThe carelessness of a Congress over-\nwith the problems to which the administra-\ntionality of the poll tax.\nposes, and refrained from denying em-\nin the fields of highway construction and\ntion of legislation.\nwhelmingly controlled by the President's\ntion is blind or indifferent.\nMEDICARE\nployees rights guaranteed them by Fed-\npublic health.\nThere is no word but arrogance for\nparty is particularly manifested in big\nIn this spirit the Republican Members\neral law were rejected as not germane.\nThe public works and redevelopment\nopposition to freedom of information leg-\nspending. This session of Congress has\nThe medicare bill, included in the So-\nof the House of Representatives have\nOther amendments offered, on which the\nbill, providing aid to so-called depressed\nislation which would permit the public to\nset a new record in appropriations not\ncial Security Amendments of 1965, is an\nHouse was not permitted to vote, were\nareas, overlaps the Appalachia bill.\napproached since the Second World War.\ndischarged their responsibility this year.\nknow what is going on in the Govern-\namalgamation of the administration\ndesigned to insure that unions securing\nThe expanded poverty program over-\nment which it pays for. The Freedom\nThe appropriation of $119.3 billion this\nTheir record is impressive.\nproposal and a Republican alternative\ncompulsory membership agreements\nlaps the elementary and secondary\nyear is $36 billion more than was ap-\nREPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVES\nof Information Committee of Sigma\noffered by Representative JOHN BYRNES,\ntruly represented a majority as demon-\nschool aid bill, which is ostensibly aimed\nDelta Chi, the national society of jour-\npropriated by the last session of Congress\nFor six of the major bills proposed by\nof Wisconsin-H.R.7057.\nstrated by winning an NLRB election, to\nat chfldren from low-income families, as\nduring the Eisenhower administration.\nnalists, in its annual report, accused the\nthe administration and passed in this\nIn contrast to the bill originally pro-\n793-858-0591\nThis staggering figure of almost $120 bil-\nsession, there were alternative proposals\nposed by the administration early in the\n793-358-0591"
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