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RE: 2ND SESSION, 89TH CONGRESS
Repeatedly during this session of Congress, President Johnson himself has hung
a spender tag on his lopsided Democratic majorities. Yet in a recent campaign speech,
Mr. Johnson said the historians would rate the 89th as "the great Congress." " The
President really ought to make up his mind. He can't have it both ways.
At the end of the last session, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said the
89th Congress in its second session ought to "spend less time on new legislation and
more time correcting oversights in legislation we have just passed.'
Instead the Congress busied itself this year rushing through a whole new batch
of legislation proposed by Mr. Johnson. Whatever loophole plugging and remedial
action was taken resulted primarily because of Republican pressure.
You might call the tiny band of Republican Congressmen in the 89th the mighty
minority because they:
Helped write into the foreign aid bill a strict prohibition against aid to
any free world nation trading with North Vietnam or Cuba.
Helped hold the mass transit authorization to the $150 million figure asked
by the President, reducing it from the $175 million sought by House Democratic leaders.
Gained a change in the investment tax credit suspension bill to let business
firms take the 7 per cent credit for investments in air and water pollution control.
Exerted pressure which resulted in a $7,500 ceiling on expenses for training
a Job Corps enrollee.
Won approval of Poverty War amendment requiring one-third participation by
the poor in local community action programs.
Led a successful fight to include in the Food for Freedom Act a ban on
subsidized food sales to countries trading with North Vietnam.
Succeeded in keeping the Federal Maritime Administration out of the new
Transportation Department so that there can be a concerted effort in the years ahead
to rebuild the U.S. merchant fleet.
Kept constant pressure on big-spending Democrats and thus kept their spending
fever from getting worse than it was.
These were among the accomplishments of the 89th Congress, second session--
improvements promoted by the mighty minority.
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