Work Done

Other action last week on Capitol Hill:

P: In the continuing scramble over school aid, the House Education and Labor Committee approved an amendment to the National Defense Education Act that would allow $375 million in federal loans to private and parochial schools to build facilities for the teaching of mathematics, science, foreign languages and physical fitness. The bill then went to the balky House Rules Committee, which already had dangerously delayed the Administration's controversial public-school bill to spend $2,484,000,000 on construction and teachers' salaries. House leaders were fear ful of defeat for both bills as tempers rose over the traditionally touchy issues of federal aid to education and separation of church and state.

P: The Administration's omnibus $6.8 billion housing program (TIME, June 30), which will be financed out of general revenues, got final passage in the House and Senate, and went to the White House for President Kennedy's signature.

P: The Senate approved President Kennedy's plans to speed up operations of the agenda-clogged Federal Trade Commission and Civil Aeronautics Board by allowing the chairmen to delegate many chores to staff assistants. Both plans had been previously cleared by the House. Earlier, the House killed a similar plan to alter the Federal Communications Commission, and the Senate voted down revision of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

P: Congress delivered to President Kennedy his requested program of new social security benefits that will increase the minimum monthly payment from $33 to $40, allow a man to retire at 62 instead of 65 (but on proportionately smaller payments), and boost widows' shares of their husbands' benefits from 75% to 82.5%.

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