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Longest Congress session ends with mixed productivity
The 91st Congress wrapped its first session as one of the longest and least productive in recent times. Democrats failed to move many Nixon proposals but passed the 4.8 billion housing bill and a strict coal mine safety measure while confirming Warren Burger as Chief Justice. The failure to advance crime, welfare, tax, and foreign policy measures looms over the 1970 session opening.
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