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Show Demo Congressman Hails Overriding of Latest Veto ary effect of later spending on public works. "With our population exploding explod-ing by the millions with each passing year, we simply postpone what is vital and inevitable when we delay the resource development develop-ment which will supply water and electricity which the 200 plus million Americans of the 1970s .will need." He called the attempts to make the veto stand in the House a deplorable de-plorable performance, "which put partisan politics high in the saddle." "Charles Halleck, Republican mentor in the House, told me as ;we chatted in the aisles of the House chamber, that he person-sonally person-sonally opposed the public works veto each time, and had so advised ad-vised the President," Mr. King said. Yet Halleck, more than any other man, was responsible for demanding party obedience of his colleagues who supporte'd the veto against their convictions? "When men step into the well of the House at the last minute to change their votes in crucial test as three congressmen did ; in the first attempt to override the veto we know they betray their own convictions, and that partisanship stands high in the saddle," he said. REP. DAVID S. KING Rep. David S. King hailed the House vote overriding the President's Presi-dent's veto of the public works appropriation as a "triumph of reason" and blasted the Administration's Admin-istration's arguments that the bill was inflationary. "By his vetoes on public works and housing, the President has tagged himself with the 'won't do' label which he and his advisers ad-visers have been trying desperately despe-rately to hang on this Congress," Mr. King declared. Making the 67 new starts in the bill now will be far less inflationary in-flationary than making them later, "when land and construction construc-tion costs undoubtedly would be higher " he said. Increases in the gross national product from these projects, he said, would be anti-inflationary and will help offset the inflation- |