Evening star., 1951-05-20
Big Jobs Still Ahead
May Keep Congress
Here All Summer
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the administration asked for is
still in tentative form in the House
Ways and Means Committee. In
formed sources doubt it can be
put through both houses before
sometime in August, allowing for
month of Senate hearings.
Foreign Aid-Still being drafted
in Government departments, and
may not reach Capitol for another
week, May touch off another for
eign policy debate in both houses,
and must be followed by a separ-
ate appropriation bill after the
enabling act passes.
Controls In Hearing Stage.
Price, wage and other economic
controls-Still in the hearing stage
in both House and Senate COM
mittees, with present law expiring
on June 30.
Reciprocal Foreign Trade Agree
ment Act-PasSed House February
II. Slated for Senate action this
week. Present law expires June II
Selective Service - Passed by
both houses, but still awaiting
action by joint conference COM
imittee on differences over a long
range universal military training
program. New law needed by July
I9.
Sanwiched in between these
high priority measures are va
riety of other bills still awaiting
action, including proposed pay in
creases for Government employees;
extension of veterans benefits due
to expire June 30, including free
mailing privileges for servicemen
in Korea and veterans housing
loans. Also on the Senate calen-
dar are the statehood bills for
Alaska and Hawaii
Slowed by Supplemental Bills.
Action on the appropriation bills
for the fiscal year starting July
has been delayed somewhat by the
necessity for giving right of way
to the Third and Fourth Supple
mental supply bills to meet urgent
needs.
Both houses will act this week
on the fiscal conference agreement
on the $3649 million Third Sup
!, Elemental bill, which contains a
new rider to curb economic aid tc
any country which lets strategic
/, war materials go to Communist
controlled nations.
), The Fourth Supplemental, car
rying ga billion for urgent
national defense needs, has passed
the House and will be reported tc
the Senate this week.
! There is little chance of com
! pleting action on all of the money
bills by June 30, when existing
appropriations expire. This pro-
. badly will necessitate passage o1
: one or more stop-gap resolutions
, to authorize essential day-to-day
expenses temporarily "a ster
. that has frequently been neces-
, sary in recent years.
! Defense Budget Late.
The Korean war and the un-
settled condition of world af-
fairs generally provoked foreign
policy debates in the early part
of the session, particularly in the
Senate.
, But even if this had not oc.
Cured there would be a substan.
tial backlog of major legislation
The big defense budget. for ex.
ample, was not submitted to Con.
gress until three weeks ago, anc
the Foreign Aid bill is still being
worked on in the executive de.
partments. 1t presented a diff.
cult task this year because of the
necessity for making whatever
economic aid is authorized fol
next year tie in with and support
the military preparedness plans ot
the other free nations. The bill tt
extend economic controls also
was not ready for COMMITTEES
hearings until recently.
: The start of work on the bud.
get bills was delayed somewha