Kennedy Wins Rules Committee Fight

The 88th Congress "should be a little bit more amenable" to the Kennedy Administration's programs than the last Congress, according to Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government. Beer declared that the President's tax proposals "will probably pass in some form" and that the outlook for the budget--reportedly $99 billion--was fairly good.

Beer expressed approval of yesterday's important vote in the House of Representatives, which kept the influential Rules Committee at 15 members. He was not optimistic, however, about proposals to limit filibusters in the Senate. The most that liberals may get, he believes, is a rule to close debate by three-fiths vote.

Despite "lots of difficulties" connected with foreign aid, the President will probably be given the funds he wants, said Beer. But he warned that it will be "pretty tough" to get federal aid to education, which he said has been "the standard case of paralysis in American government" for the past 14 years.

Joseph Cooper '55, instructor in Government, predicted that the President would wield increased power over the new Congress as a result of the fall elections. The last session taught the Administration, Cooper thinks, to concentrate its resources on the passage of a single key measure.

"The tax bill will probably be pretty scathed when it gets through," he said, "but it will get through."