Monday, Sept. 23, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Congressmen Near Autumn Showdown
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Falls official advent brought home to Congress today a chill realization it probably can't complete action this year on both the tax and civil rights bills labeled 1963 musts by President Kennedy.
Final action on taxes this year has been a prime target of the Kennedy administration since January. Three months ago, the Persistent added civil rights to the priority list for this year.
The cards appear to be falling in favor of the tax legislation, and not entirely as a result of efforts by civil rights opponents.
It might have seemed possible back in June to get both bills through the House and Senate in 1963. It doesn't look that way now.
CONGRESSIONAL leaders have been reluctant to talk about this. One reason is that the choice is a hard one and certain, either way, to make a lot of people unhappy.
For example, the House will act on the tax bill this week. The civil rights bill hasn't even been approved by the House Judiciary Subcommittee that has been working on it for months. The efforts of Northern Democratic civil rights advocates to carry along Republicans, rather than delaying tactics by Southerners, have taken the time.
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One supporter of the civil rights bill says privately that he would be pleased to see final House action
before Dec. 1. That, of course, would make it clearly impossible to get a bill through the Senate by New Year's Day. Southern filibusters could hold up a bill that long without extending themselves.
IN THE MEANTIME, the tax bill will be in the unfriendly hands of chairman Harry F. Byrd, D-Va., of the Senate Finance Committee. Byrd has made it clear he will insist on lengthy hearings, and he probably would suspend all activity on the tax bill if civil rights action was impending.
Thus, if congressional leaders insisted on Senate approval of civil rights legislation before the tax cut, they might end up with neither. If they make it clear the tax cut has a clear track, they might be able to get that bill through before the end of the year.
This has some significance, because the tax cut is supposed to go into effect on Jan. 1, 1964. In addition, Kennedy himself has repeatedly tried to sell the tax bill as a civil rights measure on grounds that Negroes, last to be hired and first to be fired, have more to gain from a booming economy than most groups.
This might seem easy to explain logically. But emotion is involved, and congressional leaders apparently haven't figured out yet how to deal with that problem when they reach the moment of truth.
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