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The President's so-called civil, rights program will command strong support among legislators of his party and the additional sponsorship of Northern Democrats. Once more, the South will be required to fight a bitter defensive action against drastic Aanges in our legal principals—changes having the energetic advocacy of a popular President and furthered by bi-partisan maneuvering among legislators from other parts of the Nation,
It can be seen, therefore, that much of the Congressional debate will be along lines familiar to citizens who have followed the Capitol Hill arguments in recent years. There will be other old standbys—. The President favors putting the Federal Government into the local school-construction field. The anneal of “money from Washington” continues strong. It seems so easv to forget that monev *rom Washington has to go there first, and that the Federal bureauemrv wrhich parcels out "grants” to Virginia and all the other States takes its percentage off the top. Of special importance to the South are the Federal conditions which ■inevitably would be attached to the funds.
Revisions of the Taft-Hartlev Act will be placed before Congress with President Eisenhower’s approval. There will be bills again for Hawaiian and Alaskan Statehood. The postal rate increases will come up once more, with renewed debate as to the shares of postal revenue each class of mail should supplv. Federal subsidization of health insurance plans, extension of the Federal minimum wage law’ to additional classes of workers, reconsideration of the soil bank in the light of its trial season—the«e. too. will be discussed in Congress.
The elected spokesmen of the people will be called on to deal with many important issues, but with few which were not brought tip in the 84th Congress. The onlv safe prediction as to legislative outcomes is that general tax relief remains a mirage. We cannot spend billions more, as now proposed, and collect less from the nockethr-A-s of the citizens.
In the next few weeks. I plan to distribute a questionnaire bv mail in an effort to obtain the benefi.f of an up-to-date cross-section of 7th Congressional District opinion on he individual measures likelv to come up for a vote in this session of Congress.
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