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13 Tax Foundation's Washington News 1 (1961)

handle is hein.tera/wingnews0015 and id is 1 raw text is: January o, 0.L1Vol. vo Na 920 Washington Building Washington 5, D. C. Earlier this week the White House announced the schedule for the final Eisenhower series of major Presidential messages, to be submitted to the new Congress which convened on Tuesday. The first of these, the State-of-the-Union message, will be on January 12 (not delivered in person). The fiscal 1962 bud- get message will be submitted January 16, and the economic report on January 18, just two days before the inauguration of the new President. Both Houses, meanwhile, are marking time, concerning themselves largely with organizational problems. In the House, as usual, the introduction of new bills in the 87th Congress began on opening day. House measures already intro- duced number into the thousands. In the Senate, where traditionally the intro- duction of bills is deferied until after presentation of the State-of-the-Union message, this procedure was revised to permit the introduction of measures be- ginning on January 5. Thus far, the Senate majority has selected its new lead- ers, and the Senate has been engaged in the usual biennial struggle to liberalize the anti-filibuster rules. Organization of the House, which thus far has confined itself mostly to speeches and routine matters, has been slowed because of the maneuvering of ef- forts to liberalize the House Rules Committee. The curretrt situation with re- spect to this significant controversy remains fluid and unclear. Earlier sug- gestions that the twelve-man committee be expanded to fifteen members, or that the majority-minority ratio be changed from eight-to-four to nine-to-three, ap- parently ran into serious objections, and reportedly these approaches have been abandoned at this time in favor of the purging of Representative illian Colmer (D-iiiss.) and replacement by a new member who would prove more sympathetic to the program of the House leadership and the new Administration. This controversy has caused the postponement until next week of a start on the job of determining ma- jority committee assignments. This task is performed by tne -fifteen majority members of the House .ays and Means Comnittee, sitting as a Committee on Commit- tees. To enable this job to be done, the House elected Representatives Al Ullman (D-Ore.) and James Burke (D-Hiass.) to fill the two vacancies on the Ways and ileans group occasioned by the retirement of former Representative Forand (D-R.I.), and the election of former Representative .-etcalf (D-loant.) to the Senate. These events seem to point toward confirmation of the earlicr prediction that little, if any, consideration of legislation of significance would get under way until after the inauguration. Meanwhile, a report to President-elect Kennedy by Professor Samuelson on economic outlook suggests the likelihood of a deficit in the Federal budget for this fiscal year and the possibility for one in the next. The list of increased expenditures, including aid to school construction and teachers' salaries, urban renewal, public works, deprosod areas, and national resources, are estImated to ad<L fran ,,3 hllinat to ...5 hillion to the total in the next fiscal year.

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