The Eighty-Third Congress

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER in his State of the Union address to the second session of the Eighty-third Congress, on January 7, stated: All branches of this Government -and I venture to say both of our great parties can support the general objective of the recommendations I make today. .. . The President then proceeded to describe our foreign relations and trade, atomic energy, defense and internal security, our national economy, the budget, taxes, agriculture, conservation, national highways, post office, human problems, labor and welfare, health, education, housing, veterans, and suffrage making some specific legislative recommendations in certain of those areas and announcing that subsequent messages on various other proposals would be forthcoming. During the session, Congress gave some consideration to all of his recommendations, and, by and large, both Houses accomplished their tasks without straight party division. The President, however, did not get all of his legislative program enacted. The program was presented to Congress in the State of the Union message,' the Budget,2 and the Economic Report of the President,3 and in messages making legislative recommendations on labor-management relations,4 agriculture,5 the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance System and the Federal Grant-in-Aid Programs for Public Assistance,6 health,7 housing,8 atomic energy,9 foreign economic policy,10 group insurance for federal employees, international labor conferences,12 mutual security,13 and disaster relief.14

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• An Introduction to the Senate Policy Committees

  Open Access•Hugh A Bone•American Political Science Review•1956

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