The American Jewish Committee, which has been conducting seminars on welfare in seven states, urged President Richard M. Nixon today to approve the $19.7 billion health and education appropriations bill just passed by the Senate. Marvin H. Riseman, chairman of the AJ Committee’s Domestic Affairs Committee, said, “We share the President’s concern regarding inflation. However, we should not resolve this serious problem at the expense of the health and education of the American people.” Mr. Nixon has criticized the Senate bill as inflationary and has indicated that he will veto it.
AJ Committee president Philip E. Hoffman said yesterday that his organization’s support of the measure was in line with its recently stepped up activities in the welfare field. The AJ Committee voiced strong approval of the Nixon welfare proposal and supported it in hearings before the House Ways and Means Committee last November.
The human relations agency has organized welfare committees in its chapters in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, Miami and in New Jersey and California as a means of keeping the welfare issue in the forefront of public discussion, Mr. Hoffman said. The AJ Committee’s National Committee on Social Welfare has given top priority to efforts to explain the Nixon welfare proposals to the public. The organization plans to issue a series of pamphlets on various aspects of public welfare issues.
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