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Leaving a lot of wind behind them and much preliminary work done, and still rubbing their hands, the Republican leaders went home to await other meetings next month and-best of all-the momentous opening of the 80th Congress...
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...
Captain George Sarbacher Jr., 27, one of the youngest members of the 80th Congress, and still on active Marine Corps duty at the Philadelphia Naval Base; son of George W. Sarbacher, veteran G.O.P. leader in Philadelphia's 43rd ward. Because of Marine regulations, Sarbacher did not speak during his campaign meetings, but won by taking bows and riding Pennsylvania's Republican landslide...
...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...