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    "ocrText": "CONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\nFOR RELEASE UPON RECEIPT\nAPRIL 7, 1966\nSTATEMENT BY HOUSE MINORITY LEADER GERALD R. FORD, R-MICH.\nI urge this Congress to change its rubber-stamping, loose-spending\nways when it returns from Easter Recess.\nThe 89th Congress in this session has continued to be a rubber stamp\nfor the White House. On critical votes most Democrats have done whatever\nPresident Johnson told them to do. They don't seem to have minds of their\nown.\nThis Congress in the first three months of this year has resumed the\nwild spending spree it embarked on in 1965. This has caused painful\ninflation, increases in automobile and telephone excise taxes, and now the\nstrong possibility of an income tax increase.\nThe way the Johnson Administration and the tcp-heavy Democratic\nmajorities in Congress are throwing the people's money around, one would\nalmost think there was no war going on in Vietnam. It's acting like a\nbusiness-as-usual Congress, not a war Congress.\nIt's claimed this is one of the hardest working of all Congresses. I\nsay the hardest work is being done in certain major committees by those\nDemocrats intent on inflating already bloated Administration spending\nrequests.\nIt's claimed this has been one of the most productive Congresses.\nI\nsay this Congress has moved at a rather slow pace, and the product is\nnothing to be proud of. Apart from quick action on emergency money requests\nfor the multi-billion-dollar Vietnam war, the thing that stands out is\nMr. Johnson's $6 billion tax bill.\nIt's said this Congress is living up to the reputation it established\nin the first session. That's true. It is living up to a reputation for\nbig spending and total disregard of the taxpayer's wishes.\n# # #"
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