The Senate last week considered the biggest rivers and harbors bill of all time. In the bill were many sound, far-reaching (and long-deferred) projects for flood control, harbor improvement and power development. In it also were many Senators' pets: long-deferred local-improvement schemes.
Republican Policymaker Bob Taft, with his eye on pledges of economy, wanted to cut about $200 million out of the bill. Candidate Taft, admitting that his stand was "unwise politically," pleaded for Congress to go slow on public spending at a time when foreign aid and military commitments were making heavy demands on the Treasury and the nation's economy....
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