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Show New Congress Settles Down To Solvinq Nation's Problems Things got back to normal in Washington this past week with Congress settling down to solve a host of problems which will affect each of us. What are the main posers facing fac-ing the new session? In a dispatch from the capitol Columnist Clinton Davidson has listed them in this manner: "Congress settled down this week to a scheduled six months session that, in addition to partisan parti-san political debate, includes three major issues. "Congressional leaders we've talked with list those issues as 1) foreign policy, 2) farm programs, pro-grams, and 3) economic policies. The three could be lumped under the general heading of "peace and rrosperity." "Add to those as secondary issues debates over civil rights, federal aid to legislation, tax re-vis'on, re-vis'on, changes in social security legislation and the federal aid highway program. "Nobody in Washington will be forgetting that this is a presidential presi-dential election year in which all Representatives and one-third one-third of the Senators will either be running for re-election or voluntarily vol-untarily retiring. "Further complicating this situation is the fact that as in 5 of the past 6 years, Democrats ! have a large majority in Congress, Con-gress, while Republicans are in charge of the Administrative branch of government. "There is more political unify j on foreign policy than any of the ' other important issues before ; Congress. There is solid backing . for the President in his Summit ! Conference scheduled for late spring in Paris. "There are differences, however how-ever over foreign aid, both economic eco-nomic and military. Our European Euro-pean allies are the most prosperous prosper-ous since before World War II, and there is strong demand in Congress that they share a part of the Free World defense costs. "The President wants, and undoubtedly un-doubtedly will get, some kind of a 'food for peace' program that will call for increased shipments of food to such under developed countries as India at a cost of somewhere near $3 billion. "There are sharper political differences over farm programs and such economic issues as in-j in-j flation anid management - labor disputes. Success of the Administration's Admin-istration's anti-inflation program depends on settlement of strikes without any substantial wage increases. in-creases. "A substantial number of con-j con-j gressmen favor 'get tough' legis-' legis-' lation to prevent any protracted strikes in important industries, such as steel and transportation. Such legislaton isn't likely, how ever, in an election year. "Most troublesome of all is the problem of developing a farm program which would 1) reduce farm aid costs, 2) halt the buildup build-up of surpluses, and 3) reverse a sharp decline in farm income. "The division over farm issues is a'most strictly along party lines. The President vetoed the Democratic farm bill last year, and Congress flatly refused to consider an Administration farm program that Mr. Eisenhower has a?ain asked for this year." tion. |