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    "ocrText": "CONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\nFOR RELEASE UPON RECEIPT\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1966\nSTATEMENT BY REP. GERALD R. FORD, R-MICHIGAN, REGARDING 2ND SESSION, 89TH CONGRESS.\nThe 89th Congress had some successes in its second session, but it will be most\nremembered for one glaring failure.\nThat failure was the refusal of this Democratic Congress; this Congress with\ngreater than 2-to-1 Democratic majorities, to come to grips- with inflation and thus\nstrike a blow for the little people and the aged.\nThe destructiveness of the inflation now plaguing this country is worsening.\nThe cost of living is continuing its sharp and steady climb. Yet this Democratic\nCongress refused to help hold down prices by.cutting several billions in unnecessary\nfederal spending. This Democratic Congress instead insisted on further inflating\nPresident Johnson's already-inflated budget.\nThe Nation has just suffered through a nearly-10-month legislative session with\nthe \"spendingest\" President and Congress in our country's history. Together this\ncombination spells Johnson-Democrat inflation, and that is the story of the second\nsession, 89th Congress.\nThis Democratic Congress recorded another failure closely related to Johnson-\nDemocrat inflation. The Congress did not increase Social Security benefits this year.\nJohnson-Democrat inflation demanded that there be action. Republicans urged passage\nof Social Security legislation at this session and introduced bills providing for\nautomatic increases in benefits tied to the cost of living without a payroll tax\nincrease.\nPresident Johnson and Democrats in Congress ignored Republican pleas. Then\nMr. Johnson suddenly--nea: the end of the session--called for congressional action\nnext year on a benefits increase effective not now but in January, 1968. It was an\nincrease to be financed by a payroll tax boost. When Republicans then demanded an\nimmediate 8% across-the-board increase in Social Security benefits without a payroll\ntax increase, Democratic leaders shrugged it off.\nPlease note the answer Republicans received when Rep. John W. Byrnes, R-Wis.\nproposed a $1.6 billion benefits boost without a payro11 tax increase. HEW Under-\nsecretary Wilbur J. Cohen said this could be done but it might contribute substan-\ntially to present inflationary pressures. The circle came right back to Johnson-\nDemocrat inflation--the inflation which hai created the need for a Social Security\nbenefits increase in the first place.\n(MORE)"
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