Show M THIS S WEEK K in washington with wi ti clinton davidson davidson bluse votes otes wool pol act extension benson r farm arm policies vindicated the congress heads for home and the election campaigning with a record of accomplishments that has earned the respect of everyone who has worked closely with few it co agle As e s iti ia althy have faced facett up jup to apor more critical problems n I 1 oy I 1 ngod more strenuously to solve them at the start of the second session early this year the most urgent problems were the russian sputniks and th 0 deepening economic recession congress s was caught in a dilemma between the two there were urgent demands for more government spend ing to met the russian mig missiles threat and at tile the same time an insistent public clamor for tax reductions to counter tile the recession growing unemployment was a serious problem more than five million people were without jobs industrial production was declining there were demands for increased unemployment and other social ial security benefits foreign aid with economic troubles at home and growing communist activities in nations friendly to the US U S congress debated whether to continue spending lillions til lions of dollars to bolster the economy and military fc ot of the alliance of or western esterh 4 nations the decision to expand our re research and at the same time continue economic and military assistance to friendly nations meant 1 I 1 no general tax reduction and 2 a substantial increase in the national debt I 1 those were difficult decisions and more especially iti in a year in which all of the house members and one third ot of the senators must face voters in reelection re election campaigns it took statesmanship of a high order to make them the crisis in which we sent troops into the middle east during the later days of the session brought closer the threat of world war III the decision to defend the freedom of friendly small no na eions was one itt in which tile the congress concurred with the president record work load cven without those malor major decisions to be made the would have been one of the busiest on record more than 17 bills were introduced during daring i the two years yean it ed among them were bils to re reorganize organize the pentagon dk 4 tense setup raise the pay of government workers new farm legislation antl anti racket coring labor legislation ex tension of the itie reciprocal trade agreements act a 25 2 5 billion public works program and a 40 billion national defense budget fach of those bills received careful consideration by committees some in evolved weeks and months of hearings then long debate in tile the senate and house congress did st amount of work in tile the seven and a halt half months between convening in january and the end of the session |