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Show MMWfiii DRESIDENT EISENHOWER has 'snowed Congress under with his 196 item legislative program. And Feb. 17 message on atomic energy the President substituted 15 recommendations for three more general requests submitted earlier, raising the total almost to the 200 circle The volume of these legislative requests is important because both Republicans arid Democrats agree that the voters next November will judge the President and the 83rd Congress largely by the fate of the Administration's legislative program. And, both parties will have to justify their treatment of controversial White House legislation. legis-lation. Congress has started many of the President's proposals on their way to enactment holding hearings and sporting bills from committee to the floor Sifting down Mr. Elsenhower's recommendations to their most concrete con-crete form, and omitting recommendations recom-mendations which require no new "Congressional action, here are a few of the proposals by certain important categories: Agriculture: Of 33 proposals made, the president asked Congress to bolster Commodity Credit Corporation Cor-poration resources; use existing farm commodity surpluses in noncommercial non-commercial channels; build foreign markets; allow modernized parity to take effect: Institute or continue flexible price supports for most farm commodities Continue 90 per cent parity for supports for tobacco; permit use of conservation funds to control diverted acreage; continue or liberalize lib-eralize Indirect aid for some commodities; com-modities; aid wool producers through direct payments; continue aiding hay distribution in drought areas; expand and revise the conservation con-servation program; curtail federal share In agricultural disease pro grams. Health: Stiengthen public health research; expand atid revise state aids for health and welfare; re-Insure re-Insure private health Insurance plans; create National Commission for Health Improvement Social Security: Extend coverage, Increase benefits, and relax restrictions re-strictions on Old Age and Survivors Insurance, extend current formulas for public-assistance state aid. pending revisions. Education: Expand educational advisory and research activities and help construct state schools Labor: Revise Taft-Hartley la bor law through 18 changes, highlighted high-lighted by: relaxation of prohibitions prohibi-tions against secondary boycotts; protection of striking unions against loss of representation rights; authorization au-thorization of stricter union security secur-ity in certain industries; and provision pro-vision for government-conducted strike votes. The categories mentioned above represent 79 separate proposals Other categories are Military and veterans, government, internal security, se-curity, postal, civil service, resources, re-sources, unemployment insurance, housing, foreign policy and taxes |