Congressional leaders were becoming concerned by the controversies generated by OEO’s community action programs across the country, and in 1967 Oregon Representative Edith Green authored an amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act, attached to an appropriation bill, which assured that local political officials would have more influence on CAAs.
In 1970, Sandler joined Representative Edith Green's Subcommittee on Higher Education and sat in on the Congressional hearings where women's rights were discussed.
Green herself had been considered a contender for U.S. Senate several times, most notably in 1966, against eventual winner Mark Hatfield.
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