Word: 81st
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...hush did not last long. The 82nd had come in on the heels of the turbulent 81st, which had quit only the day before. In a final burst of legislative speed, the 81st had passed the $20 billion supplementary military appropriation, the $3.1 billion civilian-defense bill, and the excess-profits tax designed to add $3.3 billion to the Government's revenue. In spending for defense, the 82nd would no doubt continue to follow in the Sist's large footsteps...
...than ever, and flushed with election victory. One of the results of victory was that Senator Joe McCarthy, whose Red charges had helped to knock off a number of Democratic candidates in November, was likely to have more influence in the 82nd Congress than he had had in the 81st. On domestic matters, a conservative coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans would dominate the show. Such Truman dreamboats as the Brannan Plan, the Ewing Plan, the civil rights bill, would not be launched. On foreign policy, the 82nd would be filled with shifting, unpredictable coalitions...
...first two lame ducks from the old 81st Congress limped down off Capitol Hill last week and slid into jobs that fitted them as neatly as their pinfeathers...
...coalition of Southerners and Republicans attacked the 21-day rule passed by the 81st Congress and designed to pry bills out of the autocratic Rules Committee. Under the rule, the chairman of a legislative committee could call up a bill 21 days after it had been reported. Eight times during the 81st, bills were thus wrenched from the Rules Committee and passed by the House...
...lame-duck 81st Congress lingered on, dying slowly but not gracefully. Members were in a vagrant holiday mood; by midweek so many had left Washington that the leaders were barely able to call up a quorum. As matters stood before the Christmas recess, the 81st would not be able to adjourn until the day before the 82nd Congress convened...