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JUDICIAL reform, UNITED States. Supreme Court, DEMOCRACY, BARRETT, Amy, and JUDICIAL Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (U.S.)

The article highlights the urgent need for a U.S. Supreme Court reform which requires a reconsideration of the federal fiduciary to make it safe for democracy. It reveals the Republican's decision to fast-track the confirmation of conservative Amy Coney Barrett prior to the 2020 election, a move described as an act of hypocrisy. Such confirmation makes Democratic court-packing inevitable and justified. Ways in which Democrats in Congress can disempower the court are cited.

IMPEACHMENTS -- United States, JOHNSON, Andrew, 1808-1875, TRUMP, Donald, 1946-, UNITED States. Congress, IMPEACHMENT: A Handbook (Book), and BLACK, Charles L., Jr. (Charles Lund), 1915-2001

The article discusses the impeachment of former U.S. President Andrew Johnson. Topics covered include a comparison between President Johnson's impeachment and President Donald Trump's impeachment, the risk that Democratic leaders in Congress face for opposing a racist president, and the book "Impeachment: A Handbook," by constitutional law expert Charles L. Black Jr.

UNITED States. Congress, UNITED States legislators, UNITED States elections, PRIMARIES, ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, PRACTICAL politics, POLITICIANS, NATIONAL socialism, INTERNATIONAL relations, LEGISLATIVE bills, and UNITED States

Presents an analysis of the performance of the U.S. Congress in view of the forthcoming elections. Record of the activities of the Congressmen during the past sixteen months; Attempts by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to repeal the arms embargo provision of the neutrality act in order to check the Nazis; Analysis of primary elections that are being held to determine party candidates for the coming Congressional elections in the U.S.; Analysis of the Lease-Lend Bill which was debated in the Congress on the issue of giving more power to the U.S. President; Challenges before the Congress regarding domestic and world affairs; Information on several bills that have been introduced and debated in the Congress; Information on of several obstructionist Congressmen.

LEGISLATIVE amendments, FILIBUSTERS (Political science), CIVIL rights, UNITED States legislators, UNITED States. Congress, and UNITED States

The article focuses on the revision of rules by the U.S. Congress. This 86th Congress does have an opportunity and an obligation to make certain changes in its own procedures which would permit a majority to act affirmatively. The filibuster is today an even more impregnable defense for conservative positions especially on civil rights than it was 20 years ago. For in 1949 when an effort was made to amend Rule 22 to make it easier to end talkathons, the opposition, led by the late U.S. Senator Kenneth Wherry succeeded in making it even harder to do so. Perhaps the most important of all subjects to which the incoming Congress should address itself, and one which relates to practically all the programs previously mentioned, is control of inflation.

SECURITIES, CORPORATE directors, BANKERS, CAPITALISTS financiers, UNITED States. Congress, BOND market, UNITED States legislators, and UNITED States

Presents information about bankers, brokers and corporation directors connected with a big New York corporation, Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation (B.M.T.) to get freedom from the obligations and liabilities of the Securities Act. Corporation owed some banks millions of dollars; Creation of $8,000,000 of bonds by the directors of the B.M.T.; Selling of the bonds to bankers, who proceeded to sell to the public; Intention of the directors and the company's bankers to steer clear of the Securities Act of 1933; Direction by the U.S. Congress related to the offerings of securities; Congress's exemption of certain types of offerings, including some intrastate transactions, from the requirements of the Securities Act; Probe by the Senate Banking Committee into the subject of stock dealings by insiders who took advantage of their favored position; Information that the directors and some of their associates, constituting a majority of the B.M.T. board and executive committee, had figured in the public records, and had figured roles that, however proper the financial community might deem them, had awakened a considerable feeling of doubt on the part of Senators and Representatives.

LOBBYING, POLITICAL participation, ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc., UNITED States -- Politics government -- 1933-1945, PRICE inflation, SOCIAL pressure, BUSINESS politics, LABOR, and UNITED States

Focuses on the increasing attention of organizations towards lobbying or formation of "Invisible Congress" in order to promote the interest of the U.S. government towards needs of general public. Development of new concepts on lobbying with the passage of time; Views of the labor and progressives that the answer to undue pressure is more pressure; Addition of the number of organizations and clearing houses for existing organizations, under the threat of inflation; Lack of coordination in the working of these groups; Change in the political policy of the American Federation of Labor with changing circumstances in politics; Cooperation among different national organizations of women concerned with legislation; Need for a lobby registration bill to be passed in the U.S. Congress.

UNITED States. Congress, UNITED States -- Politics government -- 1963-1969, LEGISLATION, LEGISLATIVE bodies, LEGISLATIVE power, and UNITED States

Describes the state of the U.S. Congress in January 1966. Position of senators and representatives on various political issues; Rhetoric congressional leaders like to use in their legislative sessions; Efforts of the administration of President Lyndon Johnson to repeal the Taft-Harley Act; Overview of the Great Society goals of the administration.

UNITED States governmental investigations, UNITED States. Congress -- Committees, CONSTITUTIONAL law, DEMOCRACY, ESPIONAGE, UNITED States -- Politics government -- 1945-1953, SEPARATION of powers, and JUDICIAL power

Argues that the United States House Un-American Activities Committee has undermined the Constitution and weakened democracy by denying fundamental liberties and violating basic principles of government in its investigation of alleged Communist spies. Observation that the committee has illegally assumed the role of prosecutor, jury, judge and firing squad; Character assassination of the suspects; Importance of the system of separation of powers where the Congress legislates and appropriates, the executive administers, and the courts judge and convict.

UNITED States armed forces -- Procurement, UNITED States. Congress -- Committees, PARACHUTING, HELICOPTERS, ARMS control, MILITARY personnel -- United States, MILITARY policy, and UNITED States

Focuses on the report of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee that details Pentagon failures in defense procurement. Comments of the committee on the growth in the average grade level of the armed services; Permission given to military personnel and Defense civilians above the rank of E-4 to ship foreign cars home at government expense; Observation by the committee that with the advent of the helicopter, the use of parachute jumping to deliver men to a combat area has been reduced; Discussion of the case of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

CONFERENCES conventions, UNITED States legislators, LEGISLATION, FREE trade, DOUGLAS, Paul, and UNITED States

The article presents a record of the 84th Congress of the U.S. It presents voting charts of each Congressman and Senator of the U.S. It reports that the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, an instrument for advancing toward free trade, came up for renewal in 1955. Protectionists on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee wrote into the new Act a number of amendments strengthening its "peril point" and "escape clause" provisions. U.S. Senator Paul Douglas declared that these changes amounted to a serious curtailment, if not the virtual abandonment, of principles of reciprocal trade. Twenty-one Democrats and no Republican supported his amendment.

HUMPHREY, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978, AFRICAN Americans -- Congresses, RACIAL identity of black people, DEVELOPMENT banks, FOREIGN relations of the United States -- 1963-1969, and UNITED States

The article presents discussions of U.S. events as of July 20, 1968. The Congress of Racial Equality held a convention where the issue of racial separation was discussed. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey made a speech discussing the possible formation of National Urban Development Bank to lend financial support for poverty-stricken city residents. The U.S. foreign policy toward Taiwan is reported to be changing.

UNITED States. Congress. House, UNITED States elections, UNITED States -- Politics government -- 1933-1945, POLITICAL campaigns, UNITED States political parties, MINORITIES -- United States, VOTING, and UNITED States

Analyzes elections for the U.S. House of Representatives by assessing the balance of forces in the House and studying previous elections. Composition of the House includes 215 Democrats, 212 Republicans and 4 minority party members, with 4 vacancies; Importance of party control in the House of Representatives; Probability of the election of majority of Democrats in the House; Chances of gains for the administration in a number of states with industrial populations; Details about political campaigns in various states.

UNITED States -- Economic policy -- 1945-1960, EMPLOYMENT policy, LABOR policy, EMPLOYMENT, LABOR laws, LEGISLATIVE bodies, and UNEMPLOYMENT

Examines how the battle over the full-employment bill will indicate the general lines of division in the United States Congress in domestic affairs. Pattern in the debates and voting on such issues as unemployment compensation, minimum wages, social security and housing; Liberal non-partisan support enjoyed by the bill; Observation that opponents of the bill are principally concerned about the right to employment and the federal government's responsibility for assuring full employment; Belief by the bill's opponents that the bill considers chronic unemployment inevitable in the post-World War II period.

INTELLIGENCE service, UNITED States. Central Intelligence Agency, NEDZI, Lucien, COLBY, William Egan, 1920-1996, HARRINGTON, Michael J., 1963-, GOVERNMENTAL investigations, LEGISLATIVE hearings, and UNITED States -- Politics government -- 1974-1977

Presents a first-hand account of a U.S. congressman, Michael J. Harrington, who was a member of the House Armed Services subcommittee, called the House Select Committee on Intelligence, regarding the inaction of the said subcommittee chaired by Representative Lucien Nedzi. Closed session of the subcommittee in April 1974 where CIA Director William Colby described his agency's long-term involvement in the political process in Chile which resulted in a coup against Salvador Allende Gossens and the installation of a military dictatorship; Inaction of Nedzi even after these revelations; Nedzi voted by the House to remain chairman of the subcommittee when it was asked to investigate the full range of U.S. intelligence activities; Decision of the committee to bar the author from further access to its files.

UNITED States -- Politics government -- 1933-1945, LEGISLATIVE bills, ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, REGIONAL planning, UNITED States. Supreme Court, HOUSING policy, HOUSING subsidies, and UNITED States

Focuses on the response of the Republican Party to the legislation formulated by the Administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Failure of the bill proposed under the New Deal, envisaging planning authorities, similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority for the principal regions of the country; Recommitment of the Roosevelt's proposal to enlarge and reorganize the Supreme Court, to the Senate Judiciary Committee; Senate vote for a bill, establishing the Housing Authority and permitting it to construct low-cost, subsidized housing on a large scale.

HIGHER education -- Law legislation, EDUCATIONAL law legislation -- United States, HIGHER education -- Finance, RESEARCH funding, JOHNSON, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973, PRESIDENTS of the United States, and UNITED States

Discusses issues related to the U.S. Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in December. Provisions of the law; Comparison of education expenditures from 1962 to 1963; Forecasts on expenditures on research and development by 1970; Part of the cost of education that has been assumed by the federal government.