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    "ocrText": "9.\nIt is unfortunate the Johnson-Humphrey Administration has been slow to awaken\nto the dangers of this situation. Interest rates are now at the highest point\nthat they have been in over 40 years. These high interest rates have added\ntremendously to the cost of financing the ever-mounting Federal debt. The rising\ndemand for credit by the Federal Government and business has drawn credit away\nfrom credit-sensitive industries such as homebuilding. As a result, homebuilding\nand home buying, one of the Nation's largest industries, is now faced with a major\ncrisis. Private housing starts in September were down 26 percent from September\n1965. Applications for FHA-insured mortgages on existing homes were down\n34 percent from a year ago.\nIn the next Congress, Republicans will continue to press for appropriate\nremedial action. They will do all they can to help the pensioner, the Social\nSecurity recipient, and the individual with a fixed income or a fixed wage who\nhas become the forgotten man of the Great Society.\n(See May 10, June 8, and July 27, 1966 Policy Committee statements.)\nMaintaining Law and Order\nRepublicans of the 89th Congress have stood vigilant in protecting the public's\ninterest in, and demand for, measures assuring increased protection for law and\norder in our society.\nOf primary significance was the National Criminal Law Revision Commission bill\nintroduced by Representative Poff (R.-Va.) and twenty of his Republican colleagues\nin June of this year. This bill was drafted and introduced when the President's\nso-called \"crime package\" of legislation was found to be wanting. The Poff bill\nwas substituted for an unimaginative proposal in the President's package, received\nbipartisan acclaim and support, and was passed by the House by a unanimous vote on\nSeptember 6, 1966.\nRepublicans again answered the growing demand for increased responsibility in\nthe streets and urban centers of our land when Representative Cramer (R.-Fla.)\nproposed and won approval for an anti-riot measure. This measure prohibited the\ninterstate travel of professional demonstrators and troublemakers. It ultimately\nprevailed over a watered-down Administration substitute but failed in the Senate.\nSubsequently, approximately eighty Members of the House, Republican and Democrat,\nintroduced this anti-riot measure as separate legislation. Unfortunately, this\nlegislation was bottled up in the Democrat-controlled Judiciary Committee and\nfailed of passage before the end of the session.\nIn another and vital area of criminal law reform, the Narcotics Addict Rehabili-\ntation Act of 1966, House Republicans again remained vigilant to the cause of law\nand order. Republican-backed amendments were successful in turning back an Admini-\nstration attempt to weaken the penalty structure of present law as it applies to\nsellers of narcotic drugs. Mandatory minimum sentences, which nearly all witnesses\nat the hearings had agreed upon as an effective deterrent to narcotics traffic, were\nthereby maintained to assist law-enforcement officers in the war on narcotic\ntraffickers."
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