Congress Faces Record-Low Public Confidence in 4th Session
A Harris poll shows 67 percent negative rating for Congress, second lowest ever, with majorities disapproving in handling relations with Ford, inflation control, taxes and spending, and overall economic health. The results follow earlier low ratings during impeachment hearings and the 1974 elections, reflecting voter dissatisfaction with the Democratic Congress and the Nixon-Ford era economy.
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Congress
Harris
Ford
Fordwell
House
Senate
Congress Recess Shows Mix of Home Tours and Global Trips
APCongressional recess blends home-state events with overseas missions. Leaders plan trips to Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Campeche Mexico, and Western Europe while many members stay in their districts for speeches, interviews, and constituent meetings.
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Congress
Mark O. Hatfield
China
House
Carl Albert
D-Okla
John J. Rhodes
R-Ariz
Sri Lanka
Ceylon
Middle East
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Dmass
George McGovern
D-S.c
The
Foreign Relations Committee
Campeche
Mexico
Senate
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Soviet Union
Europe
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Nelson
Senate Democrats
James B. Allen
Dala
William V. Roth
Rdel
Allen
Mobile
Anniston
Birmingham
Roth
Wilmington
Newark
Dover
Milford
Wallace Tops Poll of Demos in Gallup Survey
Alabama Governor George Wallace leads the field in a Gallup poll for the 1976 Democratic nomination with 22 percent of Democrats and 28 percent of independents backing him. Jackson trails among independents, with Humphrey and McGovern also well back.
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Princeton
N.J
Alabama
George Wallace
Hubert Humphrey
Dminn
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
George McGovern
D-S.d
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Georgia
Julian Bond
John Glenn
Adlai Stevenson III
Lloyd Bentsen
Morris Udall
New York
John V. Lindsay
Jimmy Carter
Fred Harris
Jackson
Humphrey
McGovern
Muskie
Glenn
Lindsay
Bond
Stevenson
Bentsen
Udall
Carter
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Gallup
Birmingham
Ala
Ray Stevens among three injured in Kentucky car crash
Recording artist Ray Stevens age 36 of Nashville and two other men were hospitalized for observation after their car skidded on a flooded road in Hopkinsville Kentucky. Also hospitalized were Stevens’ brother John Ragsdale of Nashville and Don J Williams. Sherman Oaks California identified as a brother of singer Andy Williams.
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UPI
Ray Stevens
Nashville
Jennie Stuart Hospital
Stevens
John Ragsdale
Don J. Willams
Sherman Oaks
Calif
Andy Willams
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