Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was the question of the La Follette-Monroney reorganization bill, passed by the 79th Congress, which reduced the old hodgepodge of 81 Congressional committees to 15 in the Senate, 19 in the House. The 80th Congress, however, was not bound to go through with this streamlining. Many would prefer the old committee system, because there were more chairmanships to go around. A fight was due over that...
...deeper than the New Deal. We'll need a new New Deal to fit a new period. The long term problem must not be minimized, of course, for from a short term point of view it's clear that we're not going to get much out of the 80th Congress. The best we can do is raise those issues which will enable us to get a better 81st...
...state that "a G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature." You should remember that most of the executive branch has been appointed by one man with the advice of personally chosen advisors. The Congress, for better or worse, is chosen by thirty to forty-five million individuals. It represents, those people. Never forget that a dominated, controlled or purged legislative body has been the rubber stamp of personal or palace guard government in Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia...
...rates the nod over an unsavory Democratic candidate. But Republicans of the Stassen-Dirksen variety are far fewer than Democrats of the Monroney-Pepper-Mead mold. And, in the Congressional races at least, a mediocre Democrat is preferable to a mediocre Republican. A.G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature...
...Indianapolis for their 80th Encampment this week went the twelve sturdiest of the Grand Army of the Republic's 84* surviving members. They needed their sturdiness. To G.A.R.'s ancients the raucous bedlam swirling around their chairs in the lobby of the Claypool Hotel was almost as terrifying as Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. But after 2,000 members of the Midwest Federation of Syrian Lebanon Clubs had packed up their tom-toms and left town, the old soldiers began to get attention...