Even so. only six of the regular appropriation bills passed. and then only three months after the fiscal year began. Many members of Congress. myself included. will remember the 97th Congress less for what it did than for what it did not do. The Congress did not succeed in revising our failing immigration laws. in reforming our cumbersome regulatory processes. in updating our laws on clean air and clean water. in strengthening rules for the disposal of hazardous waste. in reorganizing our archaic federal criminal code. or. most importantly. in overhauling the social security system. A new and costly program of employment was jettisoned in the final days of the session. largely because of the certainty of a presidential veto. The Congress also failed to terminate the Departments of Energy and Education as the President favored but did not insist. and it did not deal with his program of "new federalism" under which more governmental responsibility would be shifted to the states.
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