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Last week the House caught up with most of its schedule. Main business: by 361 to i, it passed a Bill of Rights for veterans of the Korean war. Educational, readjustment and other social benefits (similar to though less liberal than those granted World War II G.I.s) will cost an estimated $1 billion a year.

The Senate:

P: Rejected Republican-led moves to remove or loosen federal economic controls. After beating down proposals to abolish price ceilings and to shift rent controls to localities, a Senate majority seemed ready to approve extension of the Defense Production Act until March i, 1953.

P: Passed a $1.5 billion Agriculture Department appropriation bill for fiscal 1953. In the debate, New Mexico's Senator Clinton P. Anderson, once a New Deal Secretary of Agriculture, moved that soil conservation benefits to farmers be cut from $250 million to $150 million. Motion defeated, 35 to 23.

The Senate and the House:

P: Passed and sent to the President a compromise bill authorizing $6.5 billion for the global Mutual Security Program.

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