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Show 15 HUMAN RIGHTS a meeting could not be fitted into the Presi President's response has dimmed their an The dent's schedule. of a nounced hopes continuing exchange with the President. In his answer to the 60 recommendations, the President merely restated several his months, that existing programs. What the Black Caucus sition: • The Caucus recommends, as opposed to the Nixon po recmmends a shift from his general revenue-shar General ing plan to support a: nationalized welfare program. Mr. Nixon, however, has consistently supported his general revenue sharing pro posal. A general revenue sharing bill (HR 14370) passed the House June 22,1972. revenue abandoning plans to weaken programs WIder the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and restoring sufficient funding for those programs. OEO • The Caucus recommends The President reaffirmed his belief that OEO should be an sharing innova tive agency, not responsible for continuing the programs it estab lished. This approach insures a tremendous turnover in staff and supervision, • a perilous change The Caucus recommends eraI'd ai t0 e d ucation . into . a for any new program to, go through. abandoning plans to consolidate fed- program 0 f revenue s hari armg. 0ne C au- Education revenue sharing member, William Clay (D Mo.), said consolidation would mark "retreat from national responsibility". He feared that under it national priorities assigned to education of disadvantaged, poor, and cus a minority-group children would be lost. pending bills designed to provide 683, HR 4847) The President restated his belief that education revenue sharing would benefit American education and minority and disadvantaged students in particular. Many opponents of the plan are sure it would do the opposite. The Caucus asks support for quality integrated education. (S • • In his March 17,1972 message to Congress, Mr. Nixon proposed drastic solution to the controversy over busing of school children. The Nixon proposal called for a moratorium on court busing orders, a proposal that assumes Congress has the power to remove from the a jurisdiction of the federal courts a remedy which the Supreme Court itself approved in 1971. On March 17, 1970, Assistant Attorney General Rehnquist proposed a Constitutional amendment on the matter because it would avoid many of the Constitutional difficulties which School integration Busing |
