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Leader Joe Martin, a return to the old rules might check a "destructive trend . . . toward bankruptcy and eventually a socialist state." Illinois' sharp-nosed Leo Allen, who pigeonholed the housing bill in the days when he ran the Rules Committee in the 80th Congress, held out an even brighter prospect. By voting on this one question, the House could decide "whether the entire Truman program will succeed or be defeated...
Here the listening Congress realized that it was back on familiar ground. And when Truman added "at present, largely because of the ill-considered tax reduction of the 80th Congress, the Government is not receiving enough revenue to meet its necessary expenditures," a booming guffaw came from deep in the Republican ranks on Truman's left...
...same time, Flanders urged reciprocal trade with the protection of the "peril point" provision of the 80th Congress. "It was not wise," he said, "to eliminate it from the law passed by the 81st Congress...
...Alfalfa Bill's 80th birthday, Chief of Staff Hurst and the Squirrel Rifles had a party for him in the rotunda of the Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful...
...other words, balance the budget over a period of years. But if this was the policy, why was the U.S. running a deficit now? John Snyder's answer was at least partly political. The root of the trouble he said, was the tax cut by the Republican-controlled 80th Congress...